How many people ask you to come share their life?

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.

Divergent thinking is that one starts thinking from one point and expands from there to generate more ideas.

For an outpour of love there is always a first partaker

I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.

God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.