It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.

I can't imagine being invested in someone else's script.

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.