Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.