Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

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.

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

What, then, is the soul but a prisoner of your flesh? An undying yet constrained energy, bound and enslaved within a shuffling, steadily rotting suit of tissue and savage needs?

You do not own me. I do not own you.

It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

We had a good run, and now it’s over; what’s wrong with that?

No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.