When someone you love truly dies, you have to find them over and over again in the world, and I think you do that on a very psychic, unconscious level, and I think in some ways I was calling out to that spirit of my mother when I saw the fox. It doesn't surprise me it's in animals that I find my mother.

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything.

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.