I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things because they see it as a system that doesn't necessarily work and give them a sense of adulthood and fulfillment. They're much more in tune with wanting to achieve a skill, a form of self-expression, or a body of knowledge that fulfills the same function, fulfills their adulthood.

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.