“Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.”

“For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous.In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to writereally, really shitty first drafts.”

“Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when you begin is not the same as the writer you become.”

“Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other peoples too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway...”

“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”

“The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other”