Morning tide makes a great companion when you don't want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything.

I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.

Sure, I’m gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven’t completely crossed over to lunatic.

My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.

I assume these structures are made for siting?

Nice shack

I like the idea of feeling small. Sometimes life can seem bigger than you, you know? But knowing you're less than a speck in the whole scheme of things takes the pressure off, sort of.

Funny how a little sleep, a little makeup, and a lot of contemplating can make you feel like a different person - a stronger version of yourself.

We both know dad was my parental trash can, the fatherly receptacle on whom I dumped my emotions.

But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other

Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a w

In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice

For the writer, the process of writing a novel is like getting an advanced copy of a book you'd really like to read.

Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.

He that lives well sees a farre off.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence.

I wasn't prepared for this big room with clattering typewriters and teletype printers. You could hardly hear yourself think.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.