No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

Flashlight beams danced crazily

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.

I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star!