When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist. My heart was in the right place, but I was such a tiny dictator about it. It's embarrassing to me now because I was so rigid. It's such a rigid way of looking at the world. There's something very young about that mind-set.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but I think it's an enormous privilege to be born into a family where my parents had enough time to read to me and listen to my stories and foster my imagination. It's a privilege to have time to investigate your imagination. And not to have, like, an amount of stress on you as a kid that prevents you from maturing creatively.

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.

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.

When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.