This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.

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.

Like you begin your day with a cup of coffee or tea. Some begin their relationships with love and trust.It's not merely a choice - it's a habit and a lifestyle.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

Its important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.

I think the free market model of commercial trade openness - this model has undoubtedly shown enormous benefits for nations, for those of us that follow this model, of course.

I believe men's faces come in two kinds: Faces that need a blade, and faces that need an electric. I never was happy with an electric. I became pizzaneck.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

Nothing's real ,but all is possible if God is on my side

Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh. But he can turn on you. And get nasty and personal and vicious.