It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.

In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.

Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

Of all the questions I'm asked, the most difficult is, "How does it feel to be famous?" Since I'm not, that question always catches me with a feeling of surrealism....I've got three kids and I've changed all their diapers, and when it's two o'clock in the morning and you're changing something that's sort of special delivery with one eye open and one eye shut you don't feel famous.

Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.