“I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.”

“Where I'm at is a big Episcopal church in downtown Newark, New Jersey, sitting in the dark while I try to rescue the doomed bits and pieces of life, in the hope that a mere story can become Noah's Ark and deliver all the living things of the past to a bright and glorious immortality?”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

“So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.”

“Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.”

“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”

“You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore."I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk”