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.

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

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.