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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.

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

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

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

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

Every really good book on first reading is life changing.

I love talking to girls. That’s why I’ve written so much about them.

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

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

Love enlarges. What you put out into the world, you get back tenfold.

My grandmother read one of my early stories and warned—don’t force your muse.

Favorite character? What a question. It’s like choosing a favorite child.

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

The Great Gatsby had an awful, detrimental effect on me.

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

I like to think of love as something that one should keep feeding, like a fire.

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

The story of racism does not simply happen to people of color.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.