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..

It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the….

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy..

When I practiced, I practiced to get it right..

Where you stop is where you stop. There is always more of God..

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be..

Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let mysel….

There's nothing wrong with being an agitator..

The something of somewhere is mostly just the nothing of nowhere..

Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, ….

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I ….

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you..

Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast..