That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

It's becoming apparent that I like bad boys. That's one of my problems. They've all been bad boys. You're one too. You're a bad boy. But, I think you're a good bad boy.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block, the problem is idea block

In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.