The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.

There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.

Getting wasted is never a waste of time.

Except Him, whatever understood, O Bedil~ love made me forget.

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.