Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks.

I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.