When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.