But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to very specific kinds of heroism. Most of us don't get to be Snooki. For most of us heroism has to be in our everyday lives.

Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.

If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at me! I have spastic hands.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.