The line between normal and crazy seemed impossibly thin. A person would have to be an expert tightrope walker in order not to fall.

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.