Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as poss….

Grief is itself a medicine..

I've never not been famous..

It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief..

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

Grief is real because loss is real. Each grief has its own imprint, as distinctive and as unique as the person we lost. The pain of loss is so intens….

I have to change to stay the same..

Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed..

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today, we are all Americans. In grief, as in defiance..

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief..

You live day by day. You can't build your life..

I is what I is, and I'm not changing..

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard..

The movies I like are always movies where cinema is reinvented like if it was the beginning of cinema..

I have seen myself backward..

The surest sign of fitness is success..

in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding ….

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent..

The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work..