It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image.

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.

Fashion allows you to be whoever you want to be.

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

Sometimes I start with music on and then I get distracted because I'm working to a different rhythm; I'm not working to myself. So, I don't have music on when I'm working.

Joining the Sangha and renouncing worldly life is necessary in order to devote your whole life and all your energies toward the Dharma.