“When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.”

“I think, use my imagination, and write; therefore, I am.Every day I'm writing, I'm living. Every other day is just waiting.”

“Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?""No. But they like surprises. Almost always.”

“What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.”

“When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.”

“It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium. To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.”