The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly.

The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.

Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson' is about two guys named Will Grayson who live in different Chicago suburbs who eventually meet each other.

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.