I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

I’ve married a man who is so afraid of living, he’d rather destroy the very thing that makes him feel alive.

Don’t be a victim of circumstances. Choose victory by gracious endurance.

You will be more strong if you face your fears... so start by facing them!

Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.

A faint tear wet Meiko's eye, so slight a bit of moisture that it passed unseen by Yasuko. Yet all the anguish of which she never spoke was compressed into that single drop

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.

I didn't invent the middle finger, but I perfected the use of it.