The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

We are all children until our fathers die.

We don't really consider ourselves famous. we're just four dorks who ride around on a bus.

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

Partnership means she is of equal rank to you, Raven', Obiakor continued...'Don't play games with her.

I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

Nick as in my former boyfriend Nick. Ex-rat, ex-boyfriend, ex-alive if I ever got hold of him Nick.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

I tend to write in the mornings.