With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

Secrets tear you apart.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.