Before I'm a writer, I'm definitely a reader and when I read memoir, I really want it to be true.

I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't make me fat, like alcohol. I wondered if there was any harm in being addicted to only these.

I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.

It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

You deserve to need me, not to have me.

Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.