When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.