I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.

Perseverance is the enemy of doubt.

To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk

because admitting your limitations, and accepting help, makes you stronger, too.

It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue.

You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.

A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

In the end, life lived to its fullest is its own Ultimate Gift.