If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then.

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.