Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.

Important things are inevitably cliche, but nobody wants to admit that.