“Sometimes, meu amor, we lose too much time asking ourselves questions that we cant answer and forgetting that the answer is just beside us. You have to learn to ask and to listen. If one does not l...”

“We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.”

“There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we cant enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.”

“He towered over her, as intense and savage as only he could be, making her feel small and delicate in comparison, surrounded by his utter maleness. She felt trapped and she wanted to stay in his ca...”

“If all of us in the world just shared love, just a little, charity foundations wouldnt be needed.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Everybody has a home team: Its the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. Its the people who, near or far, know everything thats wrong with you and love you an...”

“The more you condemn yourself for thinking or feeling a certain way, the more you feel stuck within your own body and mind.. What if you went the other way and embraced it so totally that it was as...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”