The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.

He who controls the remote, controls the world

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much much better.

There's strength in numbers. Once we show the world that we're together, they can't stop us.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.

Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth

Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

They've come out at half time and gone bang.