You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.