How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

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.

Remember that whatsoever you desire, God is the most dependable provider.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.

There is no one right way to live.

If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful.

I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be revealed in a sexual situation.

At the end of this lifetime, you will leave this world. Your awareness field will stay together in a certain sense and then it will seek to return to things that are familiar. You will reincarnate.

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.