...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky's skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.

Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.