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“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.

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

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’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?

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.

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

How does he do it? I’ve been trying to figure this out for the past decade.

Love’s not all that fun, but it saves you. And you should be saved.

I usually get my best writing done at night or at the close of day.

The story of racism does not simply happen to people of color.

I’m a big fan of then. A novel needs a lot of thens.

I wish I could tell her that we aren’t supposed to know why we’re here.

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.