Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

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.

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

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

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

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

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.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

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

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

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

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.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

No one expected me. Everything awaited me.

I learned not to worry so much about the outcome, but to concentrate on the step I was on and to try to do it as perfectly as I could when I was doing it.