It’s comforting to me, ” he added, “that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

How do evil people find the strength to do good?

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable.

Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime.

She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we still have a relationship, it's because there's a debt.

After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.

I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

To me, the coolest are the terminally uncool.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.