I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.

You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.