When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.

The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

I know this because Tyler knows this.