There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?