I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?