Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

Now, if you ask me, what’s going on is that we’re all up to here in it, and probably the most important thing is that we not yell at one another.

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.