It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything is fixed.

Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our own dreams and desires.

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

The monsters in my head are scared of love.

The studied, unquestioning pace of my family irritated me.

Circumstances do not create the quality of your life.

End times aren't supposed to be very pretty.

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

She's half mad and three parts drunk.