I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.

Kindness to me is only powerful if it has the cruel streak behind it. If someone is kind all the time under all circumstances, they're just simple-minded. Kindness is only worth something if you have the cruel streak to back it up.