You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

The world will never know you because you did not work hard enough

If its a lie, Then let me live, Between the interconnected fabric of truths, Offer me no more, Give me no less.

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

As I've gotten older, I realize how important my fans are and that I'm here because of them and not the other way around.

I'm a Prada freak and I think they have great eyewear. Even though I don't need glasses, I use them as a fashion accessory.

You just need that opening, that moment, when you finally decide to give yourself permission to change.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.