I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager. I like being around teenagers. It's good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They're mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

There's a lot of dark stuff from the '80s that we don't think about.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.