Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't.

Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of grief.

True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.

Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.

When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.

Have an enthusiastic mind and a soft, but sweet, heart.

Is this your girl?" she asks, not waiting for an answer. "She's breathtaking.""You're my new favorite person, " Billie giggles.

There are three things a man must do alone. Be born die and testify.

Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

I like high impact movies.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.