“As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.”

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

“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope - make yourself a structure you can live inside.”

“I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep.My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside.Amen.”

“While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.”

“But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.”

“You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.”