She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of different parts. - Niles.

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.

The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.

He treated the stars as though they were love songs written to him by God.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

Her view of men was one-dimensional, but not inaccurate: men were prisoners of their genitalia and women were the keepers of the keys to paradise.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

They succeeded not only in making me normal but also in making me dull .

The most powerful words in English are, "Tell me a story.

Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight

Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.

And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a lifesaver for the very shy people who have nowhere else to hide.

Words are pretty, but anyone can talk. Pay attention to the people who perform.

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Take the local, take the express, don't get off till you reach success -- Sidney Rosen (Prince Of Tides)

The whole construct of my universe was a cunning, entangled network of lies. I had to start over again. I knew that. And I had to begin by ceasing to loathe myself for my difference from the rest.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

I lit a cigarette and began puffing on it as I drank one quick beer after another. I was neither a drinker nor a smoker nor a fighter, but I had planned to be all three on this day.

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my hands on a sunlit ice floe than try to coax fire from the books they carve from glaciers.

I was born in the age of "alas".

...Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found a pleasure to watch and a pain to mimic.

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.

I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.