... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.