I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

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

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

I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.