I was amazed how magically unknowable I’d made music composition.
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Saying nothing taught me more about acceptance than all the laughs and agreement I’d ever shared
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Life is more interesting when I’m interested, and the more I learn about anything, the deeper into its weeds must I go to stay interested.
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The blank page of my life is always asking the same question.
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The more I tell them, the more convinced I am that stories set in the past are not about the past at all.
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The rate at which I learn something does not make the lesson any less true.
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Nothing can save you and nothing can own you.
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If you ask those friends or strangers, “How do I get home?” they will begin describing the route they know to the home they know.
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If my mind isn’t busy with what’s going on around me, then what’s been on my mind quickly surfaces.
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The storyteller is in this way reassembling what time and the imagination have fractured.
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Belief is not complicated or difficult. It is the act of accepting what you already value.
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We always have a good experience together, and the movie, good or bad, serves as the catalyst for those experiences.
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I didn’t know that the daily discomfort with which I lived was the difference between what wanted to be expressed and what I was expressing.
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I have never been so quiet as the moment I first heard myself clearly.
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I have been guided through my life by feeling, and rarely by evidence or reason.
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Sometimes if you tune into a person you feel as if they’re a character in one of your stories.
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Sometimes nothing is the best thing.
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Any monkey with a pencil could write a story, but a song was like a magic spell, and I was no magician.
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Writing has taught me I will find what I want quickest within myself.
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It is tempting to write with this idea of immortality in mind, thinking that if future strangers are still whispering your name in libraries and classrooms you will somehow avoid what is often seen as the travesty of death.
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