We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Nothing ever happened except God.

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

Moonflowers blossom in the sand hills before dawn, just as I followed him.

When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it.

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.

There is no universal template that can be applied to everybody. So everyone kind of enter the process in their own way, on their own time.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.