We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames

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

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

We spent our lives making livings.