I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

But now my problems had been set loose. They could be anywhere at any time and I was just like everyone else I knew: almost positive that there was something profoundly and undiagnosably wrong with me.

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

We all deserve to be congratulated, but sadly that would mean there's no one left to do the congratulating.

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.

You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.