Everybody believes in chance.

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.

I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

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.

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

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.