When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things.

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.

Love makes you free without an asterisk mark.

Football teams that lost their matches can have many other chances to play in successive seasons

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

I try to see the dark and light in everything. This is my way of comforting myself when I am dealing with those emotions.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

But it’s up to us …’ he said softly. ‘It’s up to us not to lose this

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

Go out there and row faster.

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.

Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!