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

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.

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.

Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

Unless you Believe in yourself, everybody see you as an ordinary stone, not Diamond.

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

Steve Smith, thats what happened to us. He just kept making plays. We had a plan. We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover 2, and obviously that didnt work out too good for us.

Do you often sleep tied to the bed?

Here in New York City, it's cold. It's so cold the Republicans want to use the Keystone Pipeline to deliver soup.

"Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.

Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while moving about freely.

I have this mistress: show business.

One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.