You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.

When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing…. I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black.

She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.