There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.

It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.