“Don't Mistake Lack of Talent for Genius”

“Take me from this earth an endless night- this, the end of life. From the dark I feel your lips and taste your bloody kiss.”

“We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.”

“im eaisly influenced by others Do's and Don'ts. How can they bring me up so high, an sink me down like a stone?”

“Y'know, if anyone happens to know the name of a good literary agent that will actually return phone calls...”

“No one could possibly judge you more cruelly than you do yourself.”

“By ten o'clock, the Sunday-night blues set in. The bleak wasteland of an entire week of stupefyingly boring school stretched ahead of me like an endless desert highway.”