Never apologize. Never explain.

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.

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer.

There is much love in loving than being loved.

With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well.

Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.

When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

Frog in a little pond can be much happier than fish in a vast ocean!

I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.