“When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.”

“You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them”

“Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. We can have pancakes.”

“If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.”

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”

“You said five little words to someone--How can I help you?--and it was as if you'd mortgaged your soul out to them.”