“A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world…”

“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”

“There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.”

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

“It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.”

“Realism can break a writer's heart.”

“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.”

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

“The only question that nobody ever asks is: What breaks your heart? I think that should be asked of all "artists."… So, what breaks your heart?”