He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

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

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.