We're going to get gored to death by a feral fugging hog and your best strategy is to pretend it's a grizzly bear?

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'