He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.

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.

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or offend, Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

There is no inherent virtue to instantaneity.

I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.