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.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

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.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico.

I've gotten incredibly lucky with the people I've gotten to work with. It's made my mind better, and it's made me a better person.

Every piece of writing I've done has been something where I feel like I need to get this out of me, whether it's a seed of something personal or an anxiety that turns into a play or an image that's in my mind and haunts me that I'm trying to investigate.