Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.