Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.

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.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I think we all feel that way when we're young we don't think teachers have lives. We don't think therapists have lives. We don't think doctors have lives.

I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.