What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. When I started writing A Million Little Pieces I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.

There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.