Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

When I am awake, I sleep, but when I dream I come to life.

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.

My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.

Maybe sometimes the best things are worth waiting for possibly.

Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.