I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.