“God helps me--that's what I think--and then I am calm.”

“I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.”

“I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.”

“That's the way girls were--they always laughed. Because they were bitches.”

“Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.”

“So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”