I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.