Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

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.

It's time, more than ever, to shrug off apathy. For Socialism not to be a dirty word any more. This is a time for heroes.

Our heart is wide enough to embrace the world and hands are long enough to encompass the world.

When you put yourself in the customer’s shoes and begin your dialog from there, an immediate connection develops that stems beyond basic commerce and encourages loyalty.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.

It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.