Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

I used to consider myself to be a cineophile, and then I had a daughter. Ha! Now I barely see any movies.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then recovering, rinse and repeat. That's like eighteen hours of a day. And assuming you get out of that lifestyle before it macerates your heart, you have that Junkie Tunnel Vision, except now you get to use it for something positive: you know how to work tirelessly for one thing. Instead of using that tunnel vision to get high, I use it to make art.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.