I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

Usually my ideas are small.

Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.