But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.