"Join not with grief, fair woman, do..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.”

“Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief”

“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”

“There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.”

“[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.”

“The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.”

“The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.”

“At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.”

“The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being”