Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship

A hundred years from now? All new people.

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.