But I feel more real when I'm around her. Like I'm not fading.

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

The universe is math on fire.

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.

And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.

...this is life. Right here in this room, with you, is life.

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.

Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.

More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.

The best way to know a city is to eat it.

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.(...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

Night breeds its own sort of anticipation.

The baskets start at $25 and] the sky's the limit, I've done baskets worth hundreds of dollars. At that price, they are putting in luxury items.

No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

But the irony is they think they're being tough on ISIS and Trump thinks he's being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very, very lightly.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

I sometimes lose interest in the characters and get much more interested in the trees and animals.