“I knew what I stood for, even if nobody else did. I knew the piece of me on the inside, truer than all the rest, that never comes out. Doesn't everyone have one? Some kind of grand inner princess w...”

“She was just so sad. Her whole face hung with it, like sadness was her personal gravity.”

“I was so sad that day. My heart was trying to climb from my body.”

“She broke my heart, so now I have to write about her forever. It made everything different. It's something that can only happen once.”

“I wanted her so badly, my heart hung out of my chest like some hound-dog's tongue, pant, pant.”

“Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could...”

“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you cant, youre dead”

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebooka fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”

“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Its the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”