The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.

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.

People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

If you don't believe in God, I don't believe in you.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

I'm not poor, but I'm not rich, either.

The idea in collaborative bargaining is to negotiate without making concessions to each other, by looking for joint-gain options instead.

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say.