When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.

It’s easy to be yourself in the dark.

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.