We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

Live what you love.

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Your life is not a simulation

Triumph by putting a little soul into it!

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith