“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
“Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.”
“Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere. Joy is an inside job.”
“And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.”
“Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.”
“The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.”