All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.