It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

Half my life is an act of revision.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!