People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying.

We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.