we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.

There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.