You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.