I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.

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.

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don’t need anything else.

IF your mindset does not include a personal life plan, your Life Success Project can NEVER have any chance of real success.

Nature is saturated with deity.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Disney is a delight, someone who ... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will know that they can trust us with their lives.

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.