If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.

The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.