I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.

It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

I will lay out my plan for the United Kingdom, which I hope can provide unity and change.

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.