Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

I think that different things sell in different countries.

No matter who you are, there is always some part of you that wishes you were someone else, and when, for a millisecond, you get that wish, it's a miracle.

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.