You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.

If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.