I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control.

Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.