What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

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.

I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.