If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.

Time is the school in which we learn.

Information is control.

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.

California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.

It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.