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.

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

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

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

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.