What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.

The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.

It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.

I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest.