Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

I'm always out looking for weird, beautiful things.

in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.