All of us are richer and more fascinating and more complex than we can ever know..

Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight..

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus..

The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable..

Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss th….

I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing som….

Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. Y….

I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a….

I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my clos….

I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so….

Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue..

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present..

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness..

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl..

It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover..

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolu….

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?.

I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doe….

For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in the morning looks no diffe….

Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles..

I love to both give and receive very old books..