Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

Even not choosing is a choice.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Without speaking, one can win the trust of a person by one's conduct

Keeping her in her roots of greenness.

Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.

I don't have to be nice to people who are causing great damage to the nation.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.

We're all born bald, baby.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering