Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.

The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

There's nothing cute or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.