Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything