anxiety Quotes

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

To be honest, I hate silence.

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.