For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

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

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.