All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

Everything was always something but something – and here was the rub – could never be everything.

A dentist is only half the doctor he claims to be.

There were times where I felt I was pressing a little bit too hard with the humor, and I had to pull back, because the overriding concern of the book was to create this disease that had no cure and make you pay attention to every emotional stage of what happens.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

That's one of the things about comedy - I think it works best when it's contextualized, as opposed to kind of an island of cleverness.