Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve.

Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted very ambitiously to be a writer and what happened between now and then is that I continually threw myself in the way of those things that would help me become that, of doing and finding and learning from things that altered me along the way.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.