People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives want to hang out with other people who don't want to accept responsibility or move on, and so you find that your entire culture around you are people who are just like you, because that's what's comforting.

My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

No mat­ter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.