Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

I remember getting my first cell phone in New York, getting into a taxi and thinking "This is the end of solitude in the back of a taxi." What used to happen in the back of a taxi? You looked out the window. My brain has become less able to spend lengths of time without shifting, and I worry about that.

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.

Open your hearts. Deep inside ourselves, we are all one and the same.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.