Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

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.

To live drown in love.To live like the dead, fear the love.

Out of a clean heart....comes a clean life.

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!

We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment, but the engagement of our customers.