Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.