When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that its like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. – Scott Thompson
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences – where things turn out better than you thought they would – ought to be in there somewhere, too. – George Saunders
I love my mother Ali so much. Im a mommas boy. I just have a very cool mom. Its not as though I had any say in the matter. Im just really fortunate. Shes the most kind, loving, giving woman. – Hayden Christensen
