We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.