This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. And I do believe that if your culture or tradition doesn't have the specific ritual you are craving, then you are absolutely permitted to make up a ceremony of your own devising, fixing your own broken-down emotional systems with all the do-it-yourself resourcefulness of a generous plumber/poet.

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you.

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian)

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

library is a beautiful old thing

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.