There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.

It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness--cry and then walk--but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

“Full of sorrow, hardship, lots of burden and inevitable pain, yes, it’s all is part of your journey.”

I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.

Successful people use failures to sharpen their intuition by acknowledging mistakes for what they truly are - feedback.