life's better with girls. boys need girls.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.

Do you think magic exists if it can be explained?

Everyone will think I'm ugly."Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.

It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.

Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.

Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.

My mom said I was an escapist at heart.... that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

The Apologizer Bunny keeps going and going and going.

The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.

You cannot write well without data.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.

Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.