With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Nourish the world with your words, yo.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.