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"Life isn't apportioned equally into people."

"Other days, you see straight up through the hours to where things might still have a chance of getting started."

Excited to read more from a psychotherapist who draws inspiration from Rilke and Tillich.

"All of this echoes Rilke’s letters to a young poet in which he advises, “Have patience with everything unresolved and try to love the questions themselves.” I would add: “Try to love the questioners as well.”

“Do you know what I read in Cosmopolitan?” says my mother to my father. “That there are women who are homosexual persons.” “Come on,” grumbles Poppa Bear, “what kind of garbage is that, what kind of crap is that-?” “Jack, please. I’m not making it up. I read it in Cosmo! I’ll show you the article!” “Come on, they print that stuff for the circulation."

"I felt like I lived 100 years, a lifetime with her silent, peaceful body"

"I didn't have a clue what you were talking about, but I could see you burned for it. I wanted to be near that burning. I still don't understand, but at least now my fingers ride the lip."

"Most people decide at some point that it is better to be enthralled with what is impoverished or abusive than not to be enthralled at all and so to lose the condition of one’s being and becoming."- Judith Butler

Today's "principle economic resource is nothing other than the insatiable bodies of the multitudes"- Paul Preciado

"Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis."

From Kaddish:

"She wrote—‘The key is in the window, the key is in the sunlight at the window—I have the key—the key is in the bars, in the sunlight in the window."