Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do. ”

The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending. ”

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography. ”

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken. ”

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package. ”

I don't do emoticons unless I'm making a big deal out of them. I'll type out, 'This is so amusing it makes me want to grin in pixels.' And then do it. ”

For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it. ”

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied. ”

Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend. ”

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics. ”