There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

We accept the need to train extensively to fly a plane; but think instinct should be enough for marrying and raising kids.

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.