Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.