The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?

I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.