I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.

Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.