 How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible. |
| I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad. |
| I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat. |
| I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne. |
| I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life. |
| Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get. |
| Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something. |
| My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves. |
| It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple. |
| I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. |
| My parents were extremely generous. The people they would get to work for them might not have regular bathing habits, but they'd be good at wearing masking tape on their nipples. |
| I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song. |
| I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't. |
| My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store. |
| I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic. |
| Gag me with a spoon! |
| Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy. |
| We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one. |
| I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself. |
| The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me. |
