All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

The dead pull the living down.

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Resentments are like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.

I'm lost in the woods right now.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.