I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.