It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.

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.

Believe in yourself and power of your dreams.

There's always room for Jell-O

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

You want to spend your millions on a worthless cause? Try donating it to the Democrats.

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

I'm John Morrison, and if God have 2 sons i would be the better looking one.

Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledge to help other newer and younger workers.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

Mistakes are good provided you learn from them, and correct them promptly.