Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly in hospice care. Life is precious, so I should give everything away, except that I live in the world. And in the world, I actually have needs and wants, and I value my needs and wants. And I live in the world, and I can't just go make sandwiches every day because I also have to take kids to school. I also have to, you know, write books because that's my livelihood.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.