I’ve never seen a ghost and I don’t believe in them. I might see one tonight, but even then I wouldn’t believe in ghosts. I’d believe in that ghost.

You aren’t the same person after a good night’s sleep as you are after a sleepless night. But which person is you?

The first beautiful songs you hear tend to stay beautiful because better than beauty, which is everywhere, is the memory of first discovering beauty.

Is it a failure of my imagination that I’ve never been able to summon any genuine feeling about a sports team?

I annotated my friend’s book manuscript with scribbles on every page. She annotated mine with a single note: This needs to be better. She trusted that I would know what to do, and I did.

Everything has to be paid for, especially money.

There are two kinds of people: those who can’t perform the act when they’re sad and those who perform it only to escape sadness. I have a theory that the second kind of person lives longer.

Respect the one-hit wonder not for his one hit but for all the days he must have suffered afterward, trying for another.

You aren’t the same person after a good night’s sleep as you are after a sleepless night. But which person is you?