The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.