I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.

Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.