If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it.

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is actually highly formulaic.

You're seeing something that you've seen a thousand times and you just like it. There's nothing wrong with that but it's not a revelation. It's not a surprise. It's comfort.

I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously.

But even then I knew it wasn’t me that saved her life. It wasn’t about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn’t.

Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

i use pain to push me to greatness

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

Even when I did Ryan Gosling's movie (Lost River), we had a very '80s kind of vibe and I would say for two or three months after that, I was dressing in a very sort of '80s way.

Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.