The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew." Meaning: I may be me- but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.

In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.