And I wrote my way out of the labyrinth.

Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

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.

Physical intimacy isn’t and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy.