If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.

Carry on an undefiled undertaking.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

I'm one of the few dumb Jewish doctors.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

Fashion is expensive. Style is not. Some of the most stylish girls I know are certainly not the wealthiest.

Most people think that you need to be healthy in order to happy.