Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.