The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.

The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.