I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.

No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would do too.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.