All human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who have lived together over long years get to know one another’s failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect...
After a certain age, we are all walking around this world in bodies made of secrets and shame and sorrow and old, unhealed injuries. Our hearts grow sore and misshapen around all this pain—yet somehow...
Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.
Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never even dared to admi...
A soulmate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of contr...
A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.
A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.
A creative life is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.
A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living
A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life.
A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth t...
We must risk delight, he wrote. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.)
Here, I pause to offer a prayer for my gentle reader: May you never, ever, have to get a divorce in New York.)
For better or for worse, my dad taught me that the best place to pitch a tent will always be the spot marked NO CAMPING.)
As Joan Didion said, I don’t know what I think until I write about it.)
Ah, lovely adolescence—when the talented are officially shunted off from the herd, thus putting the total burden of society’s creative dreams on the thin shoulders of a few select souls, while condemn...
Îl implora întruna pe Dumnezeu:Te rog, te rog, deschide-mi inima. Asta era tot ce-şi dorea: o inima deschisa.(…)După câteva luni de rugă continuă pentru o inimă deschisă, ce credeţi că a primit Richar...
«Di la verdad, di la verdad, di la verdad».
Any motion whatsoever beats inertia, because inspiration will always be drawn to motion.
You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.