It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response.

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.