A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

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