I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

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!

I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.

He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.

nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

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.

What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.