The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.

Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.