The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.