Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.

Each loved one went silently down

While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.

Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

You must experience everything that you are feeling. This is what will lead you to the splintered parts of your personality.

We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.

I don’t really have a relationship with the guitar; it’s like my slutty lover, whereas I’m married to the piano

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?