My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think that allows you to reach for the best part of your reader instead of a lot of the internet stuff, in which you're kind of reaching for the worst or the most shallow part of your reader.

Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Goodbye. I'm leaving because I'm bored.