There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself." Professor Piper

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

Emergency dance party--go away.

I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?

You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

She was tired of being the one who cried.

why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?''Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more often than not. And it can be wise to look the fool at times.

Knowledge is a unique kind of property, indeed: you can share it with others, while still possessing it.

Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?

My problem is that I appeal to everyone that can do me absolutely no good.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.