You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man whose significance in the Greater Scheme of Things could be figured along familiar ratios: Pebble : Beach Raindrop : Ocean Needle : Haystack

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.

It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood.