The HOPELESS grief of those poor colored people AFFECTED me more than almost ANYTHING else.

I wasn't prepared for the FACT that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would GET steadily better - LIKE GETTING over the flu. That's not how it was.

There is no GRIEF LIKE the grief that does not SPEAK.

Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these DAYS! PEOPLE can't say anything WITHOUT offending SOMEBODY.

That's the great test: if you're GOING to be a great comic WRITER, not a humorist, you've GOT to take it into the throat of grief. Can you MAKE laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same THING?

If I'm FEELING outraged, grief, disbelief, FRUSTRATION, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and HOPEFULLY transmitted to the viewer.

Who ELECTED Larry King America's GRIEF counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings WHENEVER somebody famous PASSES.

I THINK people from Northern IRELAND have some kind of unspoken general FEELING of what it is to be around SEGREGATION. You have an awareness of it because you know how much GRIEF it's caused.

Grief is LIKE mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee NEVER ACTUALLY heals.

If I TALK about my father's FUNERAL, as I did when I was promoting the LAST novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to TELL any lies, but there are CERTAIN things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.

You can't go to Amazon and order a book on how you handle grief. There's BOOKS on it, sure. But there's no tried and TRUE MANUAL. You just have to live that out. There's no FORMULA to heal.

One of the THINGS that HAPPENS to people in grief is they SECRETLY think they're crazy, because they REALIZE they are thinking things that don't make sense.

I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, ANGER, intimacy & alive in my BODY... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's CONTROLLING IMAGES - They know power is in their bodies. I am DEEPLY grateful for the women who showed me the way home.

Most PEOPLE DEAL with grief in an awkward WAY, and that can be FUNNY.

Memories of the last NINE years have turned Ground ZERO from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an OCCASION for ludicrous ARTISTIC posturing - and now to SOMETHING very close to parody.