I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

Your heart is my piñata.

Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.