Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle—or instruction.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

That's interesting, " Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear?

You must dream or have a vision about your calling. This vision will help you take action

There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

All we really have here on this earth is those who love us.

I work hard and support myself.