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" I like science a whole bunch, but I love 'The X-Files' more - I want to believe. "

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" Join a Bikram-flow-yoga, Flywheel, or Pilates class so you can find spiritual oneness amid grunting socialite moms. Do whatever you want. Just, please, for the love of God, stop talking about it. "

" The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back. "

" In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake. "

" Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares. "

" I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened. "

" I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian. "

" You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes. "

" Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it. "

" I do not care for musicals. In fact, I hate them. "

" If you can relate to what another person is going through while giving their experience room to be its own discrete thing, you're probably a crackerjack emergency contact. "

" I've always been a texting advocate. "

" I just love the comics industry. "

" My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words. "

" Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too. "

" I suspect that living 24/7 in workout attire is the clothing version of the messy topknot. We all know that your hair is dirty, or too long, or too frizzy, or your roots have grown out, but we are all going to accept it as fabulous because that's the deal. "

" Have passion, yes, but acknowledge that side projects are still work. They shake things up, just like switching up your workout helps you stay one step ahead of your torpid metabolism. They scramble the synapses. "

" If there was a button that I could push that would agog my brain to the level that I felt first seeing 'Avatar' in its entirety and another one for food pellets, I would die of starvation. "

" Do you know why we pay trainers and nutritionists? Because having to muster interest in the minor successes of someone else's journey toward pedestrian-ass healthiness is taxing and should be compensated. "

" I love small-business owners, and I actually love the idea of vintage clothing, but I don't get when they pretend that the Internet doesn't exist or that other customers have never been to the whole rest of the country where you can rummage around and buy the same dang belt for a buck and a half. "

" Instagram is not a place for tone or irony. "

" Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna. "

" I was born in Korea and left before my first birthday. "

" Aside from the can, everything about LaCroix is gentle. "

" My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort. "

" A fanboy's heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity. "

" I have a lot of respect for people who write a whole book because I've heard it will kill you. "

" The notion of this 'emergency contact' is, Do you have someone who is holding you down? Do you know where to go if you're feeling bad? I keep likening it to assigning yourself a godparent of your choosing. "

" Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented. "

" Hopefully, if I get enough of a fan army together, people will let me write fiction. "