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

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.

I am proud and embarrassed by how incredibly self-confident I was in my late teens and early 20s. I know that there were other things going on, too, but I had an overwhelming belief in myself. Like I said, I'm embarrassed by it and proud of it.

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

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.

I just don't care that much about how famous I am. I care a lot about our world, and whether our planet will survive. It seems really low-stakes how many Twitter followers I have, in the grand scheme of things. In 80 years, who will care?

I never wanted to be a playwright.