I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

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.

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

I am Jack's smirking revenge.