Цитаты из книги Gravel Heart

Where I came from no one would dream of saying that anything to do with them was the best in the world. How could one know that without knowing the whole world?

It seemed that human sorrow was always based on regret and pain in the past, and that neither time nor location nor history made much difference.

Everything is complicated and questions simplify what is only comprehensible through intimacy and experience. Nor are people’s lives free from blame and guilt and wrong-doing, and what might be intended as simple curiosity may feel like a demand for a confession. You don’t know what you might release by asking a stupid question. It was best to leave people to their silences.