“My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.”

“That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emoti...”

“I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.”

“She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be ma...”

“I didn't care if he was a genius or a fucking idiot, he was rotting away, and it wasn't fun to watch.”

“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the ...”