You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

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

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.