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“So can you promise that you won't take your gifts for granted?"

What I’m looking for when I ask people questions normally is something one of my producers calls “the look away,” which is when someone is going back into their memory and really living in that space, and often they’ll break eye contact with you and look away because they’re not really with you anymore. And that’s the goal, to get someone there as... See more

It’s holding my ambivalence in narrative.

The future we are so worried about controlling begins to unfold smoothly, in a way it cannotwhen we are operating with such tension—always reaching, seeking, pursuing, resisting—instead of being, receiving, and allowing.

I simply have to know when I’m desperately curious and deeply suffocated by specific work situations. I’ve learned there is no “arriving” anywhere, which is maybe what the deep ache I feel is about. Seeing this as part of life helps me settle into the moments, however brief they may be.

Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Pleasure doesn’t have to be loud, or messy. It was there in everything, in the stillness and even in the uncertainty itself. I was remaking my life. I was writing my way through it.