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 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.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

Men exist on the planet. We have to deal with them at some point.

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.