There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

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.

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.