In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner.