You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?

If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world.

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come.

That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.