To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

The only question is how to make love stay.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.