It’s not fair for you to come here, I tell Depression. I paid you off already. I served my time back in New York. But he just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on...
It's the emotional recoil that kills you, the shock of stepping off the track of a conventional lifestyle and losing all the embracing comforts that keep so many people on that track forever.
It's all for the best.
It was like one of those dreams where you discover a previously unknown room in your house and you have that expansive feeling that your life has more possibility to it than you thought it did.
It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too.
It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.
It has taken me years to learn this, but it does seem to be the case if that I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something
Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.
In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in love, to combat the inescapable disappointments of intimacy.Women’s sense of integrity seems to be entw...
In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call the ‘physics of the quest’, a force in nature governed by the laws of gravity. The rules of quest physics goes something like this: If you’re brave...
In a world of such abundant possibility, many of us simply go limp from indecision. Or we derail our life's journey again and again, backing up to try the doors we neglected on the first round, desper...
Immanuel Kant believed that we humans, because we are so emotionally complex, go through two puberties in life. The first puberty is when our bodies become mature enough for sex; the second puberty is...
If the person of most consequence in the world has chosen to prefer us over all others, then we become accustomed to having what we wish for. Wasn’t that the case with you, as well? How can we not fee...
I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it.
I would so much rather that you wrote a book in order to entertain yourself than to help me. Or if your subject matter is darker and more serious, I would prefer that you made your art in order to sav...
I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.
I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
I was a sensitive and easily traumatized creature who would fall into fits of weeping at any disturbance in her force field.
I tried so hard to fight the endless sobbing. I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of s...
I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't...