Occupation: Writer Birth: May 17, 1957
I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps..
I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weig….
It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground..
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror..
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language..
Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, ….
It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly..
Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself..
Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, ….
He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it an….
I'm not crying about anything or anyone in particular. The life I live I created for myself, and I wouldn't want it any different. I cry because in t….
Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time t….
Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the i….
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions..
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understand….
When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but ag….
Perhaps it's true that love is eternal. But it's appearance changes all the time..
The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind..
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind….
I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats fo….
We all try to camouflage the monotony. But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another any….