It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

...there's nothing wrong with being a little hopeful. Who says you can't warm your frozen limbs in the faint heat of a flicker of hope?

Nakajima’s past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That’s what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.

Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age.

And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

A benevolent universe of spirit helpers sits at the ready to support your unfolding joy. All you have to do is ask.

Prayer elevates and transforms you. Nourish your soul using this powerful communication tool every day, and you will never be the same again.

Unkind acts are like giving a piece of one’s self away for cheap.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.

I'd like to move back to New Orleans.

I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

I'm doing something new on South Street and people are telling me I'm crazy It's kinda freaking me out.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

Christians have a dual citizenship - on earth and in heaven - and our citizenship in heaven ought to make us better people here on earth.