I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.

He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different.