But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.

Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.

People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any longer.