“Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.”

“To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.”

“It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.”

“My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said, while my mother heard more.”

“Turn from that road's beguiling ease; returnto your hunger's turret. Enter, climb the stairchill with disuse, where the croaking toad of timeregards from shimmering eyes your slow ascentand the drip, drip, of darkness glimmers on the stoneto show you how your longing waits alone.What alchemy shines from under that shut door,spinning out gold from the hollow of the heart?("The Sea's Wash In The Hollow Of The Heart")”

“Go ahead and laugh! If you don't laugh, you going to cry ~ so laugh!”

“Concern should drive us into action, not into depression”