It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction.

The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry.

Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to.

Water was liquid silver, water was gold. It was clarity—a sacred thing. Drinking was no longer something to take for granted. I’d never needed to consider water before.

There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes

The bravest thing I ever did was leave there. The next bravest thing I did was come back, to make myself heard.

I’d believed I needed to be steady in myself before I could function with others—but surviving alone no longer felt like a good way either.

I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.

I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.

I was the director of my life, it was already true, and I would soon lead myself to my dreamed-of destinations.It was the task of my one thousand miles of solitude.

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

As far as I’m concerned, eighteen holes of golf is the only happiness that money can buy. - Momofuku Ando

Theres nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

Time will unfold its leaves.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

People who can’t see without glasses should wear them.

You need to know what doesn't work to know what works. It's especially true in improv and stand-up.

The only way to buy more is to produce more.

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.