If you're going to give me something, give me something I'll miss.excerpt from: freefalling

Sometimes you get so tired of each day, you wish it was over. But it just goes on and on, like the silent prayers that forever go unanswered." - excerpt from: freefalling

I must be really ugly or something, because nobody wants me. Not even God wants me. That's why he makes me stand out here in the cold. - excerpt from: freefalling

You know she’s a liar if she says she’s never done it for ten bucks. We’ve all done it. Practically giving it away. But sometimes you can’t even give it away." - excerpt from: freefalling

Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself who’s really stupid, the guys who stop and pick you up, or you, for being out here in the first place?" - excerpt from: freefalling

On the street there is no tomorrow. There is only here and now and nothing else. And yesterday is just another day you’re trying to forget." - excerpt from: freefalling

Sometimes you just have to be there to understand, even if being there makes no sense at all." - excerpt from: freefalling

Love is a funny thing. It’s not at all what you expect it to be. But if you have to stand out on the corner to prove it, then maybe it’s better not to be in love at all." - excerpt from: freefalling

Today I’m going to pretend I’m dead. I wonder if anyone will notice." - excerpt from: freefalling

Out here everybody abuses everybody. It’s just the way it is. So you'd better get used to it." - excerpt from: freefalling

Sometimes you wonder why you’re out here. And the stupid thing about it, is you haven’t got an answer." - excerpt from: freefalling

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

I don't know how to make people who absolutely have to be obsessed with paying a week's energy bills... obsessed with climate change... It's very hard.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.