My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.

It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess.

Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

Of course, everyone wants to be mythologized in a great way.

Future hipsters will love me ironically.