Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

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

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.