Life’s one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person’s real protection.

That was one plus about profound self-loathing. Nobody could hate you worse than you hated yourself.

I don’t do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

After all, she told herself, if Todd preferred Jessica – and that certainly was how it looked – she would not stand in the way. She’d do the decent thing. Die.

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It’s at the bottom of the pile.

She figured if you weren’t woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn’t be eating them.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was ‘A Child’s Garden of Verses,’ by Robert Louis Stevenson.

When I first heard the word existential, I didn’t know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.

It’s so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.

Luck doesn’t shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.