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

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.

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

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.