If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?

Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.

It’s our memories that teach us who we are.

Never leave home without your memories.

One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.

To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.

Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.

Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion.

It’s in our dreams that we pull people towards us.

At that moment the ghost dance seems to Zinnia like the relationship of two people who never quite consummate the love they feel for each other.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live.

I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?

Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.

I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.