Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.

My parents were open about sex. And my dad makes paintings that have a sexual component and it still scares me.

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.

There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’