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Art doesn’t conform to a capitalist’s ratio of productivity to time.

In real life, my favorite character, so to speak, is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

There’s something to stepping right out of your dreams and onto the page.

I love talking to girls. That’s why I’ve written so much about them.

The Great Gatsby had an awful, detrimental effect on me.

Try never to repeat rhymes, not once in an entire show. It tires the ear.

I don’t own a smartphone and never will. I’ve never sent a text.

“The Sentry” taught me that all true laughter has tears behind it.

Best part of the day? The part when I come up with an idea for a cartoon.

It helped me free myself from a longtime source of unhappiness.

“Nobody asked you to write.” Over time, I realized it was a magic key.

I like to think of love as something that one should keep feeding, like a fire.

I’ve read this novel at various stages of my life and I feel as if I know Isabel.

It’s best for my heart to have hours and hours each day to write.

Every really good book on first reading is life changing.

This is kind of a big, wet valentine, isn’t it? Shouldn’t you throw it out?

Favorite character? What a question. It’s like choosing a favorite child.

Love is not something you wait for passively, but a practice.

Love is the difference between a full life and an empty one.

I’m obsessed with finding a convertible that has enough room.

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.

I sometimes have to laugh because even now, as a middle-aged man.

I found it impossible not to imagine a radiant future for myself.

Poets need to be
in constant touch with the extremes of feeling.

Jayne Anne Phillips

When he died earlier this year an enormous hole was left in my life.

Eating a raw oyster is like exchanging a soul kiss with the sea.

For years I thought this light was love, or God, but now I know it’s fear.