My heart is a harness of nothing, deflated balloon, and a place of loss.

Mind and soul both exists in thoughts. Then how can you call them separate.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

I'm a believer in paying your dues.

I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

Do not engage an enemy more powerful than you. And if it is unavoidable and you do have to engage, then make sure you engage it on your terms, not on your enemy's terms.