"In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage."

"Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons."

"I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be."

"When I first met you, I thought we were made for each other even though we seemed like opposites in some ways and we fought. But now...'What?'Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other—into the people we should become. Do you know what I mean?"

"Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider."

"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."