The point of books is to combat loneliness.

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers.

Nothing brings you together like a common enemy.

She took a sort of abject pride in her mecilessness toward herself.