I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.

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.

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 don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

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.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

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.