You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.