When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.

Nerdfighter pwns woot. Everyone knows that.

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

You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.