To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

It was a dark and stormy night.

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

poets are born knowing the language of angels

Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.