I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..

What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows," she says.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

Imagine others complexly.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

When people we love are suffering, we want to make it better. But sometimes - often, in fact - you can't make it better. I'm reminded of something my supervisor said to me when I was a student chaplain: "Don't just do something. Stand there.

What a word that is, en-courage. Though our dreams be tossed and blown, still we sing ourselves and one another into courage.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.