I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

Waffles аrе јust awesome bread.

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't.

But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.