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

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

Most days, at the pool, we are able to leave our troubles on land behind.

I’ve found that love has provided my life’s happiest moments.

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

I know now not to measure my insides against others’ outsides.

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

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

In narrative terms, sex is the propeller that moves the story along.

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

One of my stories was rejected by a journal as “theatrical and self-limiting.”

Dr. Seuss taught me something about the way words can be used.

Every really good book on first reading is life changing.

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

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

A more typical writing day for me is being constantly interrupted.

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

What’s the most useful criticism you’ve received? “Keep writing.”

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

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

Henry Chinaski is just so deplorable and lovable; he makes me laugh.

I once heard in a sermon, “Choose the important over the urgent.”

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

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

Insomnia! There is a sickly romance to the affliction—initially.

For today, fuck it, it’s snowing, stay in. Eat your Wheaties dry.

At nineteen you were six-foot-two. At ninety-one you will be two-foot-six.

Time, now more than ever, is of the essence. Time is all there is.

The ideal way of presenting character is to invite perception.