As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.