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.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.