I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy.

You just gotta tell her, man,’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.

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.

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.