You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.

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.

Don’t pray for help

Everything changes

Customers often know more about your products than you do. Use them as a source of inspiration and ideas for product development.

It's you, ” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot follow you.

Many an injustice is presented as a solution and gift.

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.