Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

I'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.