Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

One withers, another grows.

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.