You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want.

There is no normal life; it's just an idea we've been fed. People who realize that tend to be the happiest.

I think you're conditioned, especially in America, that there is this line you have to walk down. Anybody who wants to move off that path at any point in their life is my hero. Anybody who goes off that path has to wrestle with that.

There are people that will try to hurt you and hold you down.

You can make yourself happy.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.