Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

When you trust your readers, you're hoping they will see what you see. Not every book is for every person.

Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person can't miss something she never had.

Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police tried to catch him.

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

When something works for you, all you can do is cross your fingers and hope that it will work for someone else.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.