I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn't really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.