Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.