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.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone.

His computer password is "password.

When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.