For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.