I'm your friend, and friends don't let friends die.

I’d prefer silence and random jokes about the passing billboards and scenery, but I know how he likes music. I just hope he doesn’t start singing.

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

Be like a tree. The tree gives shade even to him who cuts off its boughs.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually.

For the snark was a boojum, you see.

As I change my thoughts, the world around me changes.

You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.