"Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are."

"I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."

"Nowadays, if you say something funny or smart, you’ll hear someone say to you, ‘Oh yeah, what’s that from?’ And you’re like, ‘I made it up, motherfucker.’ Sampling, cutting, pasting, referencing- digital culture is so deep in people now that we forget there’s such a thing as originality. Many people don’t trust a new sound or idea if they don’t know where it’s ‘from.’"