I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of people's lives.

I took a drink. "I guess it's different for you.""Hmm?" "I bet you have girls hanging all over you. Dozens would probably kill to be in my spot and here I am, allergic to your bread.

My support is particularly Bernie Sanders supporters but that's drawn many [Donald] Trump supporters to start with.

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.

I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.

Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.