All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say yes to any choice when no one will be hurt? We use the word hurt when talking about things like this because when these things go wrong it can feel as if you were hit in the sternum by a huge animal that's run for miles just to strike you.

When you adapt a book, you really have to cut it to the essence.

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.