Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.