Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a disposition.

We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.