I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.