There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Once trust is built, distance cannot kill it. Time and space alone cannot destroy authentic connection.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

To know yourself, you must first sacrifice the illusion that already you do.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.

The world is changing and you’re only just becoming accustomed to it. You’re changing, I suppose. You’ve changed since I’ve known you.’‘How?’‘You’ve come more alive.

The insanity of shameful desires!

Fantasy is the only truth.

A rock star does not age!

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

I always see guys get all, like, flexed on other people, trying to show off that they are tough, and it is just, like, no girl really likes that.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

Sometimes the story takes you to places that you want to go and sometimes it takes you places you don't want to go.

Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.