People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh! Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.