When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.

No" is a complete sentence.

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.

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

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

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.

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.