A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.