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.

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

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.

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

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.

The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.

There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.

As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.

The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.

You can make a little thing feel like a big thing. To me, it's all tone. Tone is the most important thing in the world. Then character, then story, or something like that.

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.

In summer, the song sings itself.