When you leave a place, it's best to leave.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

Television is a passivity.

Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.