Worship power - you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.

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

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument for religious reverence rather than skeptical empiricism as a response to life's meaning.

Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense.

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

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