No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.