Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.