Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.

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.

Decide, first, to simply be.

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

Angels will frequently - even when they're comforting us with good news - touch the awe of God's eternal presence and drive us to our knees before our God of glory.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.

Health care for everybody, by making it illegal not to have health care. It's so simple, why didn't we think of this before?