If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will.

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

Kalos Kai Agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful.

The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.

The Hopi Indians thought that the world’s religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm.

I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.