That's how I became the damaged party boy who wandered through the wreckage, blood streaming from his nose, asking questions that never required answers. That's how I became the boy who never understood how anything worked. That's how I became the boy who wouldn't save a friend. That's how I became the boy who couldn't love the girl.

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

No one ever likes the right person.

I am gripped by an existential panic.

...if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.