Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly.