I recover my property wherever I find it.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words.
People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.
The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.
The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don't want to.
What initially attracts us and what later becomes 'the problem' are usually one and the same.
It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.
Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his style, a voice that is singular, and that's what I think writers should strive for, to have a style and a voice that is only theirs.
We had a saying that the fun stops at one.
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.