You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.