For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.