After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

Focusing on what I want, and what I need to do to get it, seems like such a small change in mindset, but it’s made a huge difference. I feel almost … invincible.~ Toby Faye

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

But puberty was... well, before puberty, at school, I didn't tell kids I was a transvestite 'cause I thought they might kill me with sticks, you know?

There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.

In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.

Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

It needs courage to be afraid.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.