As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

...the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.