When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender.

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.

The light ought to shine for the darkness to fade.

The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...[on his death bed]

When we humans learn how to analyze the messages of the nighttime we open ourselves up to manifest our greatest selves.

Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!

I call upon Donald Trump to rescind the appointment that he made of Stephen Bannon. A president of the United States should not have a racist at his side, unacceptable.

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.