Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.

...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side.

It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place.

The simplest things are the hardest to understand.

Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220

The future might be dark, but darkness shared wasn't a thing to be feared.It was to be embraced.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies.

If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.

If I have only one life . . . let me live it as a blonde.

Economics is too important to leave to the economists.