Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

There are degrees of freedom. Complete freedom isn't always good, nor is the lack of it always bad.

My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

Let me know that you hear me, let me know Your touch, let me know that You love me, and let that be enough

The violin - that most human of all instruments.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.