It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.