“(Remember you always have the option of taking to the sea.)”

“I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.”

“My history teacher could make us feel like he was imparting rare gossip to us when he was talking about Maria Theresa and the Habsburgs. I just loved that sense of - the Western canon is here, and ...”

“Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that ...”

“Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.”

“One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.”

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“How can you know if youre normal when youre always alone? You have no one to compare yourself to. I mean, I have my mom and dad, and Im pretty normal compared to them. But then a lot of people are ...”

“...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are ...”

“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.”

“You are the silence between the notes. The white space between the letters. The missing that makes everything else a something.”

“Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.”

“Something else has happened with computers.”