The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

Famous people like to choose friends who won't go around repeating their conversations and details about them.

When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.

I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.

I've wasted a lot of time pretending to be interested in people who weren't terribly interesting.

At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.