My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

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.

I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.