In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

Facebook is the novel we are all writing

It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to be how I go about my days: peaceably in person, fiercely on paper.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.

I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.

Thank God in advance for what's already yours.

Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I should be pleased to have the part.