We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

The Venn Diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.