Sleep is over-rated. Have you ever noticed how it's always recommended to people anybody with half a brain can see need to wake up?

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them.