It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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.