On a good day I write, all day.

There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.