Don't count your check-ins before they cash.

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

The illusion is we are only physical.

Anger is a wound gone mad.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

These dogs didn't bother to bond with us, but stuck out their paws, not to shake hands but so we could slit their wrists and get it the hell over with. (p.51)

I do think imperfection is underrated

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.