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I hate Whole Foods.
Use well thy freedom.
I'm not fussy about my food.
I hate that word dysfunction.
I hate the word 'partner' so much.
I admire your capacity for admiring.
Manhattan is just all bank branches.
I don't dislike people; I love people.
Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.
The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
You're either reading a book or you're not.
Popularity has become its own justification.
His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
You see more sitting still than chasing after.
He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.
And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.
We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.
The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.
Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.
It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.
Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.
Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.
But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.
Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).
He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure.
I wanted all of her and resented other boys for wanting any part of her.
If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.
Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.
I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.
Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.
The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.
He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.
There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.
Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance