But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

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

When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.