I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.

...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By the transport of books, that which is most foreign becomes one's familiar walks and avenues; while that which is most familiar is removed to delightful strangeness; and unmoving, one travels infinite causeways, immobile and thus unfettered.

Certain elements of teen life that, 10 years ago, were very important to me still, are becoming less so as I get older. I mean, Ive kinda gotten over, I guess Im saying, the fact that I had trouble getting a date for the prom.

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.