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

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.

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.

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one.

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.