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The world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination.
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
The most dangerous illusions are those we mistake for reality.
The stories we tell shape the selves we become.
Fiction allows us to live multiple lives, to see through eyes not our own.
Philosophy is the discipline that forces us to confront the questions we would most like to avoid.
The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
There is no God and we are his prophets.
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
I like the idea that every life has its own rhythm, that people are not simply points moving through time.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself.
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear.
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
We all live in the wreckage of our ancestors' lives.
To be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive.
Memory is a tricky thing. It's not always reliable, but it's all we have.