“I look up upon a sparsely starred abyssHaving wandered to this street cornerIn the middle of the nightWatching the cars and people go byWonderingIf this deep, black nothingnessIs the sum total of b...”

“Under a nights skyFilled with a hundred billion starsIs it so crazy to believeOur paths were destined to cross?”

“What a cruel irony it is, that we get to choose our thoughts but not our feelings.”

“You are my drug of choiceI know youre no good for meAnd though I swear my lipsWill never touch you againHere we are, here we are.”

“Call me obsessed, color me consumedIve always been the type to noticeThe smell of a rose in bloom,But let me confess, this is newYouve stopped my heart, let it resumeAnd I, to finish, must tell it ...”

“Sometimes it feels like even ifEvery inch of my skin was touching yoursI still wouldnt be close enough to you.”

“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.”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great...”

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cove...”

“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”