I definitely wanted much more normalness than what was around me.

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.

I was going to die and it was taking forever.

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.