Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

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.

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.