The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.

Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

Love is a greater mystery than death.

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.