Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth.

[of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: ‘I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.

This is what's so terrifying about being lonely: the instinctive sense that it is literally repulsive, inhibiting contact at just the moment contact is most required.

Collapse, spread, merging, union: these things sound like the opposite of loneliness, and yet intimacy requires a solid sense of self to be successful and satisfying.

There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure.

What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.

You can achieve a lot of unimaginable great things in life, but only under the condition of not allowing your negative thoughts and beliefs to stand in your way.

In the modern world we are surrounded by so much abundance that we cannot see it.

Your scented tears on white roses - Love is crying in a good way.

You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful.

For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

I try to be healthy because to be happy and healthy on the inside shows on the outside.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

I have this really beautiful Martin guitar, and it just kind of writes songs for me.

There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way to do theater.