For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a smart nerdy kid my whole childhood, and I definitely wanted to be somehow involved with reading the rest of my life, and I came from a community, I lived in a community, I was part of a community where reading was considered completely alien.

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

...sometimes a start is all we ever get.

I think that if you're writing about the human condition, my God, you've got to start at base: point zero, point one, is the body.

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You quote Neruda. You cancel your Facebook. You give her the passwords to all your e-mail accounts. Because you know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

[The biggest disappointment is] that he [Barack Obama] deported everybody and their grandmother.

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.