It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from.

We all have our essential nature. If you're good with numbers, you don't even know you're good with numbers because that's how your mind works.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

If I was born into a household with anxiety about money, I wouldn't have had as much freedom to be in my own world. So it's impossible for me to divorce the privilege of my childhood from the other things.

Lena Dunham or Miranda July, those people are sort of thinking about their work in a slightly different way than I do, where their whole body is a seed of what they're creating. I can't imagine watching Miranda's movies with anybody else playing her role, she's so integral. But for me, it feels more like every story is really individual. If I thought of something else, or thought it should be my body representing it, I'd fold my body into it. But most of the time I'm writing to get something out of my body.