“Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world’s pain and escape it.”

I think being compassionate of each other’s lives and issues is nonnegotiable when it comes to friendships. We’re all going through different stages and issues, and as I get older, I’m trying to lean into that.

Women right now, we can’t make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

Cereal when high is always a great option. I don’t even have cereal for that reason.

I used to not be into the fancy ones. I used to eat goo balls all the time.

I think that Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs, like, a pump-up. And I think Jock Jams is a classic pump-up. Like before she starts working, she needs that.

Every show that comes out that’s female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it’s taking over.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.