I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.

In the end, I had to call myself a faggot, which really annoyed me, because 1. I don't think that word should ever be used by anyone, let alone me, and 2. As it happens, I am not gay, and furthermore, 3. Chuck Parson made it out like calling yourself a faggot was the ultimate humiliation, even though there's nothing at all embarrassing about being gay.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.