You can’t fool people into loving you.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.