Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

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I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys.

Being somewhere but not completely: that was home for Danny. . . . All he needed was a cellphone or I-access, or both at once, or even just a plan to leave wherever he was and go someplace else really really soon.