I give myself a good cry if I need it, but then I concentrate on all good things still in my life.

...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

Don't get too attached to anything.