I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.

Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.

I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.

I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.