"For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane."

"My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics."

"The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten."

"I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring."

"Fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: I will try once more tomorrow. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that fortitude is the quiet voice at eventide saying: i will try once more tomorrow."

"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."

"Never give in and never give up."