“So I was beginning my new life as a anomaly, which figured about as much as it sucked.”
“My life sucks. So I shave my head.”
“The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.”
“In that book which is my memory,On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
“...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.”
“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”