I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

You should always go where there is a 'you-shaped' hole in the world.

You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

I still go to a party and say something embarrassing to someone, and then write them a weird e-mail about it the next day, and then write them a text because I think they didn't get the e-mail. No matter what happens with your level of success, you still have to deal with all the baggage that is yourself.

I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that I would go and read.

I took "Forever" [by Judy Blume] to the bathroom to read [when I was eight] and then I heard my mom coming so I stuck it under the toilet and went running out. And I went back later to check for it. And it was gone.