We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.

While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

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

I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.