Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.

A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer.

Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?

The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.

And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second moral of the story, if a story can have multiple morals, is that Dumpers are not inherently worse than Dumpees - breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; it's something that happens with you.

I don't know why boys expect us to like boy movies. We don't expect them to like girl movies.