I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.