I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.

Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.