“The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.”
“There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.”
“It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.”
“There's more to life than regurgitating other people's sentiments--lest that is one's career.”
“Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.”
“When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.”