As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.

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.

Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.

Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.

Change can never be good until you face it head-on.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a complete stranger will unstitch you.

I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.