Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.
Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.
My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.
We are not made up only of our light and happiness but also of darkness and sorrow. To deny the darkness of yourself is to deny half of who you are, and when you love, truly love, you need to love the whole person not just the part that smiles and waves, but the part that thinks murderous thoughts and knows that pain is both pleasure and temptation, but still thinks puppies are really cute.
What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must. . . communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.
There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.
Jealousy doesn't show how much you love someone, it shows how insecure you are.
I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.