My signature is like a squished spider.

There is a moment, when a woman’s foolishness slips into delusion. The former is forgivable, the latter isn’t. You will never live it down. Remember that.

This is what she’d always wanted. A painless life.

How impossible, though, to turn one’s back on all the horrors in the world; there had to be another way to live.

You think you know how a story begins, or how it’s going to turn out, especially when it’s your own. You don’t.

I’m married. And pregnant.

The imagined Internet is so much better than the real one.

The jugness of the jug” was how he explained Heidegger to Cal, as if that explained anything at all.

All crises, once averted, become jokes.

At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.