You can't touch music, but music can touch you

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.

If you vote for Al Smith, you're voting against Christ and you will all be damned.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

Paradox of marriage: you can never know someone entirely

How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

Salty tears stream down my face—coating my lips as I mutter senseless apologies for so many things. So many irreversible things.Morpheus peels the vines off and lifts me, cradling me to his chest.

Whether by plane, bus or carpet, own the magic in your ride.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

It's just the reality. Everyone's going to die and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.

I don't really have a retirement plan.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.