Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.

Bad news should be followed with soup. Then a nap.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

I think people might think, oh, I don't want to approach the big famous author because it's embarrassing, but then they think for two seconds about it and realize, this is, like, a toilet bowl reader.