A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

You can't not like "The Great Gatsby." It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.

Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.