When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.

War is the health of the state.

If you can find your perfect job, create one.

Come let's go inside. I'm sure you and your men are hungry.""Yes, " Allan said, grinning."Shameless, " I heard David grunt."There is no glory in shame, " Allan said back.

Haven’t you learned yet? Someone has to be the villain so everyone else can stay alive.

Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

The gods love those of ordered soul.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.