I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!

Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and learning.

Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting.

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

You can never know anything for sure.

I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

Don't give up on each other.

I...will never...regret you.

My daddy has a chain five miles long, on each link a heart for a lover he has lost.

Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.