I'm super-popular, so I had to pretend to be a loser, which was super-hard.

I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.

When you birth a child, it's like a bloody giving of self to the creation of a life.

Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.