The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.