what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to write a book. What's a good question?" It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.