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

"This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.