Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.

Use Me is a wonderfully satisfying book.

If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.

Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.

My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.

I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.

There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.

You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can think of.

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him.