Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

Fundamentally, the answers to our challenges in healthcare relies in engaging and empowering the individual.

Meditation is the best means of elongating life

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.

I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put their arm around you at times and lift you.