Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.
Life is just a dream on the way to death.
So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.
It can't rain all the time.
Running is real. It’s all joy and woe, hard as diamond. It makes you weary beyond comprehension, but it also makes you free.
Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.
It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and be counted. We must be willing to act in accordance with what we believe under all circumstances. It is of little value for us to believe one way if we behave contrary to that belief in our private actions or in our public performance.
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.