I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.

It’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life...

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.