But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

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

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

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.

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

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.