College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.

Don't waste your time on life.

What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?