Loneliness ia a human condition

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you

Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind.

Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Partial education throughout the world is far worse than none at all if we educate the mind but not the soul.

How many times do I have to tell you? We are not gangsters!

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

I'll never be alone, because I'll always have My Problems with me!

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.