We are far more like somebody watching ourselves than somebody in charge of ourselves..

We are never content with our lot..

Religion is a byproduct of fear..

Fear is always a good motivator..

As you are now so once were we..

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time..

Less bitching...more learning..

I allow myself to get firmly sucked in. I love that! I come from that..

I sing because I'm happy..

If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars..

Knowledge makes everything simpler..

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light..

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders..

This is how it is now. This is my life..

The Dark Dark is a far slower project, clearly, and that's a relief. I look for slowness anywhere I can find it..

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like ….

For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink..

One must as willingly be nothing, as something..

You never know what to expect. You don't just walk on and expect an amazing reaction..

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here..