You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

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.

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

When the mind is silent, you can listen to your heart and remember that everything is Love and that you are that Love.

The Church at its worst is still better than the world at its best!

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.

A man becomes a Buddha the moment he accepts all that life brings with gratitude.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.