The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.

I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn - small, tasty delights - and I like to gorge on them now and then.

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.