To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

The zipper opened all the way down our spines.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked. "It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.