'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.

I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

If you do not run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.

In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.