He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

Family's the one thing you can't change. You can cover yourself with tattoos. You can get a grapefruit-sized ring going through your earlobe. You can change your name. You can move to a different continent. But you cannot change who your parents were, and who your siblings are, and who your children are.

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.