Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

It's so hard to live that one needs a support around life. We can't live without some supernatural support.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.

Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.