For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

We understand more than we know.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.