I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

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

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.