Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.