Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader time to think about what they have read. I struggle to slow down.

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.