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

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

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.

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

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.

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Right. I can see it now. Merry Christmas, everybody! And by the way, did I tell you I'm a vampire? No need to pass the gravy, just bare your neck-

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

See everything. Ignore a lot. Improve a little.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.