Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

There are always so many things happening [to us] at one time. We read Isherwood's A Single Man in class, and we had to ask: How is he talking about all this stuff: teaching, being lonely, all his memories, all at the same time? He's telling us: This is where my head is at, let me be straightforward. And of course, try be artful about it.

Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

I think, and a lot of that has to do with where I grew up in California; [status] isn't something I think about that much.

If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.