The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don’t, there’s no hope for you.

Eighty percent of success is just showing up.

Falling in love is like jumping off a really tall building. Your brain tells you it is not a good idea, but your heart tells you, you can fly.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

Life's a bitch. Then you marry one.