There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.

I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.