“Sorry about your bad luck.”

“If you don't display a little more grace, I'm going to smear butter all over your face!”

“When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory of feelings and musings from which they can choose and infuse into their words and characters.”

“Devils and whores. It is bad luck to talk of such things without a drink in your hand.”

“Sleeping in the same bed with someone to whom you can admit your failings is a lasting comfort indeed. This is not about "mea culpa" as surrender, it is about "mea culpa" as mortar in binding together the uneven bricks of a human foundation.”

“There are no bad kids…well, except for the possessed, and maybe those pesky aliens masquerading as humans.”

“The Summer after high school,when we first met, we make out in your Mustang, to Radiohead,and on my 18th birthday, we got matching tattoes,Used to steal your parents liquor, then climb to the roof,Talk about our future like we had a clue,Never thought I'd wondering I'd be losing youIn another life, I would be your belle”