Oh we'll know each other forever, Bix says. The days of losing touch are almost gone.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled.

All our, let's say, incomes are really very well, transparent to those organs who need these information and who are in charge of combating corruption in our country.

The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'

You will never be greater than the thoughts that dominate your mind

My shrug was so nonchalant it would make a cat jealous

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

What light through yonder window breaks?