Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.