Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.

And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into.