I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
He wrote, You’re being crazy. You’re going to catch a cold. I already have a cold. You are going to catch a colder.
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost a...
Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
You have to do something bad to do something good.
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.
We would have been safe.
The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of s...
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second
It takes life to live life
I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right palm, what can I say, it hasn't made my life wonderful, its made life possible, when I rub my hands ag...
I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a...
I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God. Her culinary prowess was one of our family’s primal stories, like the cunning of the grandfather I never met, or the si...
This was a troublesome supplication, because at the dawn of July, Ukraine was to celebrate the first birthday of its ultramodern constitution, which makesus feel very nationalistic, and so many people...
There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.