We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

The things you used to own, now they own you.

I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.

As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death, why so many plays end with death, because it's full resolution. I'm always curious to know what happens after Romeo and Juliet die. In a way, that's the beginning of the story. Maybe beyond the story is even better.

New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.