I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.