I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

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

Eventually everyone has to hit the dark side of life - Someone doesn't like you, someone doesn't like your work, someone doesn't love you back... people die. What we have is a generation who are super-confident and super-positive about things, but when the least bit of darkness enters their lives, they're paralyzed.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

Hip," I murmur, remembering last night, how I lost it completely in a stall at Nell's---my mouth foaming, all I could think about were insects, lots of insects, and running at pigeons, foaming at the mouth and running at pigeons.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.