Have you ever gotten so sad that it actually feels GOOD to do something you know will make you even sadder?

Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.

Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.

I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

It is far more painful to awake from a beautiful slumber and – in that brief period when the continuity of life is still lost to you – to reach across the bed for a hand that is not there.