There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row-I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours-eight big hours outside my home- was unfeasible.