I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

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.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.

Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.

The future is just wasted on some people.