Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

You're sick. Sick and evil and weird.