If you, like, consciously think about being cool, you're not cool. If you consciously think about being, like, different or original, you ain't different or original.

I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.

Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.