And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.