Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.

She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn’t frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove

The whole point of life is to learn love. Life is the school, love is the lesson and we are all here to teach each other.

Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.

Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.

I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that’s what really gets me going.

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.

If you are creative, sometimes you give up a lot of things that other people have.