A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.

I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens... this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.