Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.