How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you try, you make people infinitely crazier than they already were, including or especially yourself.

if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.

I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.