People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.