Divorce has taught us how to sleep with friends, sleep with enemies, and then act like it's all perfectly normal in the morning.

After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.

Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.