Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.

I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.

Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.

I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.