Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.

I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe´s cold and painful indifference to us.

When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

I've been outta my mind a long time.

He certainly seems like the perfect guy but none of that matters if he's not the perfect guy for you.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid

Anyone who believes in a Jesus who condones abortion does not believe in the real Jesus, and therefore is not Christian.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.