A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.

Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.

All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.

The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.

I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

We all make decisions. But in the end, our decisions make us.