What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.

There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.

I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.