What an embarrassment that was, being somewhere because there was nowhere else for you to be.

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

She closed one eye and looked at me and said, "I know there is a blessing in this somewhere." It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.

I think I am like most people in letting myself worry about things that didn't matter. Concepts like quotidian and humdrum prevented me for years from really absorbing the miraculous strangeness of bombing around a star on a tottering planet, of watching the world unfold in time.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.