We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

I want to be violated by insight.

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.