"I’m glad I don’t have to live over again. I don’t want to. It’s a bore."

"I'm not a victim. I'm a survivor."

"I’m not sure what I’ll do, but—well, I want to go places and see people. I want to find out what’s at the end of the world."

"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."

"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."