Protect your garden. Some come as weeds disguised as flowers.

Eating your own heart simply to keep the strangers from tasting: a suicide.

It's time to make important noise.

Form delicious bonds. Be the fruit that others seek when their hearts and souls are hungry.

Some days I'm to sip you. Some days I'm to be drowned.

Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light.

Reinvention is no rushed religion.

Learn to be alone. Learn to love being alone. Learn you as you're alone with yourself.

They tended to look at his lips, for his transient gaze was dizzying, though the mouth, you see, the mouth was also a danger, for the teeth would do the unraveling.

You're allowed to practice humility while also owning your greatness. Don't you dare minimize your greatness.

Be it tart or sweet, always savor the moment. You'll not taste one just like it again.

If you're taking something from people around you, take "Inspiration", not their "Character" that you've already got your own. Always be yourself.

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .

The magic to a great meeting is all of the work that's done beforehand.

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me.