“It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone.”

“All I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams.”

“As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.”

“Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.”

“I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!”

“Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.”

“She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.”