I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

... by doing you shall know What it is you have to do.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?

For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient.

…this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.

Be careful what you choose to experience, because you never remain the same person as earlier. Something intrinsically changes you forever!

If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don't know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence!

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

I never learned to read music.