If this was a sandalwood pyre she would have thrown herself in and this paper she'd become would have caught fire and she and him could sail away like two birds.

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.

Don't ever trust men with good intentions. They'll always disappoint you."Leo

Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.

A leader helps others to reach their full leadership potential.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.

One moment cannot be the most important.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

It often takes catching a glimpse of how our life would be without something that's valuable to us for us to realize just how valuable it is.