We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

The older you get the more you live in the past

I used to worry about money and career and what was going to happen. How was I gonna succeed or fail in the world? And I thought about it enough that I'm no longer worried about it. I'm not... I don't worry about what's gonna happen in my life. I don't worry about telling me about dying, my own mortality. That's a given.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with