You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Theres beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, thats harder than others.

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul.

The real life essence is to do the things that makes you really happy.

I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it.

Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.