Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.

Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.