I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?