I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.