The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.