Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.