I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that never goes away.

Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."

You don't have to go to New York and you don't have to go to LA or London. Go somewhere cheap. Go somewhere with free art museums and then just go to art museums.

Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.

What makes the hero truly greatis never, never to despair.

I write as if I’ve lived a lot of things I haven’t lived.

. . .once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.

I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.

When I did TV shows and my other movies, I never try to do it for anybody. I just do what I think is good no matter what the genre is.

The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.