American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

I wish other people would write about loneliness more. It's hard to remember that it's not personal. We live in a world that is built to make people lonely... It's difficult to remember that your loneliness is not really about you and everyone has it.

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.