If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

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.