A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person.

But it was smell that carried memory.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

I am going to go into this world, and I don't care if you and your narrow mind cannot be a part of it.

As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

My father builds homes. So I grew up around the idea that you can take a piece of land, and you can bulldozer it and build new homes on it. You can create something new.

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.

When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.