Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.

People always get used to beauty though.

Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.