My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.
Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans. " "But you are an American. " "Incurably so, it seems.
Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. . . but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Being an older mom, I'm super mellow with my kids. Also, "curious" and "loving.
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.