The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.

Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.

It's true that I never wanted to grow up. But how important was it really — to have decided to be human?

Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic.

[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.