There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock and people who don't, and for some reason I've always been one of those to say, 'Hey, let's flip over that rock.'

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.