The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.
We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.