You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Your heart is my piñata.

You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

The answer is there is no answer.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.