I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

Suffering is universal.

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.

The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.