Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup? It's impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh.

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.