The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.