Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more.

It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen from the seam of our lives, a respite just before the onset of imminent tragedy.

I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.