Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

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.

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.

Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.

When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

Writing is hustling of another kind.

The gift you offer another person is just your being.