When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.