I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I was very much deceased. All faded to black

Eat, as nobody is watching. Enjoy food like that’s the only thing left in your world.

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.

It may be that America has become too big and complicated for most people to deal with being part of. People are longing for a smaller, stupider reality.

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.