“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”

“I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.”

“A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.”

“Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.”

“I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”