We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.

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

Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.