There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.
We’re happier when the assholes are villains.
Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.