Sara Teasdale

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.