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'.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.

Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.

But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.