You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.

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.

I realized I loved you, and I didn't want to be married to somebody I didn't love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn't all that complicated.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

When I write a novel I start each morning by reading for 20 minutes.