A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.