her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

I began to consider the fact that maybe history is actually the great destroyer of free will.

Children should never have baths, ’ my grandmother said. ‘It's a dangerous habit.’‘I agree, Grandmamma.

I am determined to do my very best.

Help me to understand, what my grief has prevented me from seeing - within.

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

I always wanted to go to Sundance.

Life is all about moments. No one in history has ever been able to hold on to one.

Smoking means always having to say you're sorry.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.