To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.
The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.
In making dinner for a friend, don't forget the love.
If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.