...uncorny, human sized drama

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

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

I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.