Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.

So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.

If I go to the coffee shop and have a nice interaction with the barista, I don't know what that does for world peace, but we have to assume that in the great basket of goodness maybe that's one little micron or one little neutron that you've put in there.

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

[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes something and 60 years later a reader picks up the book and something in them rises to meet it.

I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be so confrontational and pissy.

Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.