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

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

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

I see no reason not to write whatever comes to me.

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

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

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.