Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.