It's such a liability to love another person.

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.

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.

Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

We were just two broken souls trying to fix one another...Somehow I ended up with a piece of you and you me

I glance down, and my eyes get big."What?" He glances down, realizes why my eyes are big, and shrugs his shoulders. "It's morning.""It's cute. Can I keep it?

There's Nothing To Hide When Your Soul Is Not Guilty....

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.

You do get the pregnant mush-brain... you know what it's like? It's like getting stoned.

Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.