Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.