Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents.

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally.

In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.