Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior.

I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.

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

People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.