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.

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.

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.

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

I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes.

...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current--carried where?

Good government has to mean less government.

Disaster management should be coordinated by the federal government, .. It is our exact responsibility.

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.