Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.

I am nothing, and not even that.

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.