It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

Brad Pitt is so good-looking there's a lightbulb inside of him shooting good-looking-ness in all directions.

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

I don't like that whole "art should challenge you" thing. Because I don't feel like art actually does challenge you. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything.

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.