Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.

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.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

I was not born to be forced.

We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.

Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

She doesn’t usually back down that easily.” “Maybe she’s got class.” Eve snorted. “Trust me,” she said. “That girl’s got no class at all.

Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.’ (Danger)

It’s been a whole day since I last killed someone, and I’m getting antsy. (Maxis)

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.