I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

A moment is all you can expect from perfection.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Your heart is my piñata.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.