My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear that from anybody? It's one of the simplest sentences in the world, just four words, but they're the four hugest words in the world when they're put together. You can do it.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.