Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.