Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.