I'm always looking for something new and interesting to say. And it can't be something I'm directly experiencing.

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.

If you are playing the rigged game of investing, the house always wins.

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set

National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they're - if they're competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.

You put a guy on a desert island, he'll do it to mud, a chicken, a barrel, anything, a knothole.

Even here in California with more contemporary buildings. I have a real problem with the low doorframes. It's a curse! That's just another of the many problems I have to live with.

When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.