If courage is not there, if the possibility of things getting better is not there, listen a little harder. - Anne Lamott

It is most comfortable to be invisible, to observe life from a distance, at one with our own intoxicating superior thoughts. But comfort and isolation are not where the surprises are. They are not where hope is.

I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.'
Oh, Rae. Who hasn't

I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security, peace of mind, and even joy are probably not that great. Ruin, hysteria, bad skin, unsightly tics, ugly financial problems, maybe; but probably not peace of mind. I tell them that I think they ought to write anyway.