When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

You never step backwards when you’re sure of where you’re going.

The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

We are not free to break our covenants and escape the consequences.

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Arsenal are the most beautiful club in England. At Man City and Chelsea, they will never have that class and style.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.