It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.