“I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.”
“how blessed am i that i can walk beside you, lean upon you, and live within the warmth of your love”
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.”
“It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.”
“Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what I would do if I weren't afraid.”
“To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.”