When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

We live inside our parents' backstory.

Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.

If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." —Staggerlee

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.