Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.

Failure: the renewable resource.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

There should ne’er be a timeWhen a duty or dimeDoth outshineThe importance of family.

I caught him by the collar and dumped him into the nearest bin."That's where people like YOU belong!" I spat at him as his legs wiggled in the air. "In the garbage!" - Chapter 2: Miserable Torture

I never think about what people are going think about me.

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

Sanity is not statistical.

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

I love movies like '500 Days of Summer' and 'Juno.' Something offbeat without the glamour and the makeup and the clothing.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.