And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.