Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.