Neither Boncer nor Teddy comes out of the house, not even to watch from the veranda. Here, laying the dead to rest, like washing and feeding and birth, is women’s work.

To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.

People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere

Hearts of gold are heavy.

It looks like to watch a film without little horror is like to eat a pizza without the extra stuff on it. Like the sauces!

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted.

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

You cannot be completely nice. It's impossible. Who is it? Who is the perfect guy? Show him to me! It doesn't exist. And thank god.

Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.