There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.