Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

She's a sun-kissed beach girl who goes gothgrungepunkhippierockeremocoremetalfreakfashionistabraingeekboycrazyhiphoprastagirl to keep it under wraps.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky.

I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.

They suffered with his death and she - she suffered with their reaction to it.

And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily over half a ladleful of thin oatmeal kasha, cooked entirely without fat - just oats and water.

Chris Salamone's characteristics & willingness to perform more than others simply makes him stand out in public and differentiate him from those who are not successful

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

Well to me the most interesting things can be an actor's facial expression, a gesture, the movement of a body - all those things that we are saying to each other in-between the words.

What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'