I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?