It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

I love doing readings. I could really give a crap about reviews. It's kind of about the readers.

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

It is never crowded at the mountaintop.

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

Obviously Javy [Baez] is able to control his emotions, he plays it as it should be, it's a game. That's how he plays it.

I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18.

Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.

I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.

I can look at myself in the mirror, and I can be proud.