A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

Where does contagion end and art begin?

Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.

It seems to me that one of the most interesting things about God as a concept, if you decide to believe in God, is that God's ways are unknowable. And God obviously, look at the world around you, does or is responsible for some terrible, terrible, awful things. A young girl kidnapped and kept in the darkness and sexually abused. The deaths of six million Jews. A mudslide that buries a village. All of these things. If God is doing the good stuff, he's got to be doing that stuff too.