They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.