The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

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.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.