The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

I'm a poet who can whine in meter

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

If you really want a woman to love you, then you have to dance. And if you don’t want to dance, then you’re going to have to work extra hard to make a woman love you forever, and you will always run the risk that she will leave you at any second for a man who knows how to tango.

Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.