I'm a survivor, I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who...
Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.
We are made to persist.that's how we find out who we are.
In a world where the most consequential things happen by chance, or from unfathomable causes, you don't look to reason for help. You consort with mysteries... They have been killed in place of you - i...
We're never too old for dreams.
The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.
And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.
Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown. April's Father had a breakdown and they got him there in no time.
The human heart is a dark forest
Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that already enclosed the farmyard. The Welches had no animals to keep in or out - a fence there could ser...
Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are.
You just go from day to day and before you know it fifty years are up.
He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.
Want! You must want something. What do you want?
They’ll die, and then they’ll be dead.
Memory is a dream to begin with.
There is only one thing you have to know about the future: everything gets worse.
Say you've just read Faulkner's 'Barn Burning'. Like the son in the story, you've sensed the faults in your father's character. Thinking about them makes you uncomfortable, left alone you'd probably c...
Most of our desires are clichés, right? Ready to wear, one size fits all. I doubt if it’s even possible to have an original desire anymore.