You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

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.

If you are different and alone it doesn't mean you won't see a moonlight

Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business ?

Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

Hate is only conquered by love.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

You can't be happy, if you're not free and you're not fulfilling yourself.

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.