When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.

The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.