Quotes About Connection

I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.

Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

I met Charlie Trotter before I actually saw him in person; I was 24 when I first opened the pages of Charlie's cookbook 'Charlie Trotter's' and was greeted by a man I would know and admire for the next 20 years.

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.

It has been a pleasure being in the same era. I mean, the guy's last name is Bolt, and he's the fastest man ever. You can't write a story like that, and so to be in the pages in there is nice.

I think, a lot of times, we find ourselves in a relationship where we are on two different pages.

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.

I run our Twitter and Facebook pages, because I feel it's important to maintain a personal relationship with fans.

Engage with your readers as often as you can. Readers, myself included, want a relationship with everyone in their lives, even the people behind the pages of their favorite books.

We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.

There's a fullness that happens when someone is focussed on you. For me, if I'm being fully looked at and paid attention to and seen, I'm filled up by that.

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Monk's music is often defined as enigmatic, eccentric and humorous - as if it had little to do with the pain he may have endured to create his art. But I believe Monk routinely shared his history with his audience, no matter how unpalatable that history was, and it is for that very reason that his music connects with people around the globe.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Work is a salvation. Work is how you connect with who you are, no matter how painful it might be.

People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

I like that I've been through things, that when something happens, it resonates with something that already happened. It's not that things like loss are more or less painful. But they're deeper. I find that fascinating.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.

There are folks who now know black families - like the Johnsons on 'Black-ish' or the folks on 'Modern Family.' They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

The pains felt by Asian countries are our own pains. Disaster in Asia is nothing but ours as well.

That pains me in my heart to think that someone who is gay would think that I don't love them and care about them.

What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes.

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.