The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.

Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.