Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.