Sometimes bad things happen. Nothing caused them. They're nobody's fault and no one's to blame. They just happen.

He'd built his career on the fallacy of clear boundaries between the material and the imagined, and the idea that the difference mattered.

Grieving is messy and horrible, and it takes too long, and everyone tells you what you need.

We may hop when the gods say 'frog,' but we still get to choose how fast and how high.