“How had she become one of those people who wears yoga pants all day? She used to make fun of those people. With their happiness maps and their gratitude journals and their bags made out of recycled tire treads. But… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“Whenever the wife wants to do drugs, she thinks about Sartre. One bad trip and then a giant lobster followed him around for the… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead, — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out. — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why I have… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“Survival in space is a challenging endeavor. As the history of modern warfare suggests, people have generally proven themselves unable to live and work… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way that… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it. — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again. — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
