We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

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

Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.

He missed her like crazycakes.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

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