“On rereading: the second time through a book, you're not meeting the story again — you're meeting who you were the first time.”
— Notes on Rereading, Personal essay
“The internet made distance cheap and attention expensive. We used to travel for wonder; now wonder travels to us, and we scroll past it.”
— On Attention, Personal essay
“A sunflower doesn't turn to the sun out of joy. It turns because it has to. Maybe devotion always looks like joy from a distance.”
— Heliotropism, Personal essay