It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.

You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

Maybe the most real thing the end. To realize when it's too late.

If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

The biggest cause of divorse in my opinion is marriage

Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?

I don’t think this is working out between us, ” I told him. “You and I want different things. It’s not me, it’s you.

You can't think the thoughts you want to think if you think you're being watched.

Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.

I've always been fond of the advice I once heard from Robert Frank, "Keep your eyes open."

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts.

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.