But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they became the sort of people biographies get written about.

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.

Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.

Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!