Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

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.

Lisa cried until there was nothing left to cry about.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

To live is to laugh, as to laugh is to live.

IIFA is always involved in charity, and that's why it's a great thing that I am a part of IIFA and will continue to work along with them.

The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?