Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.