Quotes

there is nothing meaningful enough to make you happy that could not make you sad if you lost it

The only sensible path forward is to learn to accept the brokenness of human life, to develop resilience in the face of its petty cruelties, and to learn to live with yourself.

Writing is often treated as a project of making things, one piece at a time, but you write from who you are and what you care about and what true voice is yours and from leaving all the false voices and wrong notes behind, and so underneath the task of writing a particular piece is the general one of making a self who can make the work you are mean

I basically navigate the world by vibes, smelling out opportunity, people, places where I’m wanted.

As you get older you’ll find most people you meet are really only fleeting moments of your life, and that’s okay. That’s normal. That’s life. Ride the wave anyhow. Get emotional. Feel sad when you break up. Do it again. It’s whatever. Hell, fall in love and run off with someone to a foreign country and get married if it comes up, or don’t. It doesn