I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.
In the water I saw my father’s face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.
They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.
What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
When you look up ‘hilarious’ in the dictionary, there’s a picture of you.
I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.
I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up.
Why I’m Not Where You Are.
What if I never stop inventing?
Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!
Sadness of love without release.
As I’ve grown older, I’ve grown more convinced there’s nothing that shouldn’t be talked about. If we think we’re protecting each other, we’re not.
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
People don’t care enough. They don’t get worked up enough. They don’t get angry enough. They don’t get passionate enough. I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
I’m interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I’m not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.
To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.
We shouldn’t be intimidated by someone else’s idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.
We’ve made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We’ve never claimed more, and we’ve never had less.