There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.