“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”

“What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?”

“When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.”

“We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.”

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.”

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

“A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”