Words can wound, and wounds can heal.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.