The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.

By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.