But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. It just went away after a while.

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis .