As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world.

I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted.

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

When you make the connection between your choices and your experiences, you do not have to create the same experiences again.

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.

When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.