Every paper girl needs at least one string.

You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.