The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.

I took a part-time editing job to pay the rent. It was work I could do at home, but when suddenly I was expected to spend two days a week in the office, I quit, bought an ice cream cone, and walked the sunny streets of Manhattan.

After all, hope is a form of planning.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.