To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed.

Let your existence be enough for a moment.

I had received a t-shirt from my best friend Veronica at my police academy graduation. It reads, ‘Throw your donut in the opposite direction and the cops won’t get you.’ I love wearing that t-shirt.

Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes

After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

Always keep your anger bottled up. You might need a bottle of anger some day when friends come by and won't leave.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.