Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

like a kid kicked out of class. humiliated and free.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.

Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.

This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.