“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.”

“[I]t is something that comes up as a struggle in me. It especially came up when I was about 16 or 17. In high school people think you have to be so macho. People get attacked just because someone insinuates something about their sexuality. I think that’s gruesome.”

“It was a gift to have something else that I was passionate about, because at the end of the day, it comes down to the work and the art.”

“Fiction is, the art of making up something. That's what it's all about, folks. Making stacks of money.”

“I do think that getting a dog says something about you, it says; I'm so lonely that I could pick up shit.”

“It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”

“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”

“We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.”

“In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.”

“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.”