There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just as much because they will teach you something.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.