“Writing is like a noble gas, it expands to fit the container it is placed in. If you give me until Thursday, I’ll procrastinate until it’s due.”

“Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.”

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.”

“Sometimes, there was no getting over it. Sometimes, you lived with the empty place inside of you until you imploded on it, loss as singularity, or until the empty place expanded and hollowed out the rest of you so thoroughly you became the walking dead, a ghost in your own life.”

“The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.”

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery until it involves plagiarism. Give credit where credit is due.”