[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

The only step that makes the valuable to become valueless is the negative side of your eyes that you use to see it.

Chances don't approach you, it's you who approach chances.

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow hard and cold

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.