Assim é, mas a vantagem da igreja é que, embora às vezes o não pareça, ao gerir o que está no alto, governa o que está em baixo.

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

En su habitación del hotel la muerte, desnuda, está delante del espejo. No sabe quién es.

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you're surrounded by people who love you, can't you?

Remember the music is not in the piano.

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.