I like being around funny people.

I think it's really important to have a sense of humor.

I don't do the like, "This led to this, and this was why this happened." That doesn't feel real and isn't how I experience things.

I like being around funny people.

I have hundreds of Word documents filled with pages of one-liners. If I begin to write a story, or if one of my thoughts leads to more than a couple paragraphs of writing, I'll go into these documents and pull out lines that I think would work with it.

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."