Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. And when that happens, everything that seemed so sweet and lovable about them begins to look ordinary and depressing.

I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.