I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay rather than the novel.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.