I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

I don't really like to write anywhere but my own apartment. I send a lot of text messages to myself as email when I'm not at home. My texts are usually like, "If I ever break up with my boyfriend I want to date a very angry rapper."

The last time I was asked that, I said "A Year Without Spoons." Normally you get asked the same questions over and over, so it feels boring to say the same thing. But then I was like, I don't even know another essay I like. They're all good.

I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

In fiction you can make up everything to create the feeling. You can manufacture a story with whatever tools you want. With nonfiction you have to rely on what actually happened to describe what you're feeling. That's hard. You have to know what will feed into the emotion you're trying to convey. And that's hard because you don't necessarily know what causes your emotions.

That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah."

I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline could be contained.