Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

What is explained can be denied but what is felt cannot be forgotten.

Being alive is gardening and cooking and birds and green and blue, at the very least.

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

I try to construct a theory of how a moral person should live in these circumstances, and how such a person should love.

curiosity did not kill the cat

... I believe true love arises only when two people are completely in sync with each other’s music. And dance with them.”-Michael to Sophia

Hollywood's a business, and until someone puts their finger on you and decides you're the guy who's going to carry that movie, it's not going to happen.

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

What is life if not a gamble?

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

Sometimes being let down my a human being is the direct cause for you finding your own strength & depending only on Allah.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.