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

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

We see in others what we want and what we fear.

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.