like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.

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.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

The days of hair tonics have long since passed.

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity.

The USA won't be competitive or fair if we don't help more families give their kids the best possible start in life.

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.

If you don't go and do something in life, nothing happens.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.