To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.