“We cannot always do what is best, but we can do what is practical at the time.”
“We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.”
“The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.”
“We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.”
“time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.”
“There is no such thing as always doing our best. How utterly exhausting that would be. We just do what we do. And maybe it's enough.”