As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

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.

No matter how much time and space may come between us, I still feel you.

Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.

Although there are real hazards in saying yes to life, they are inconsequential when compared to the regrets that come with saying "no".

It was much easier for me to endure the belittling than it was to watch my dad get belittled.

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.

I consider PirateBallerina to be the most credible news source in the Denver area.

3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?