Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.