Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there’s no excuse for being cruel, even if you’re a bored teenage kid.

I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

Get out on the stage of life.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.

Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people's wrongs his own.

Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.

I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

The country in which I live is not my native country, that lies elsewhere, and it must always be the center of my longings.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?