Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.

Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

When heaven invades earth, it's more than a tsunami.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

As long as you’re with you, that’s all that matters.

I’d been doing everything to please everyone else and some imaginary me.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.