I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.