Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Masochism is a valuable job skill.