A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

Religion is pure hypnosis

A half-blood of the eldest dogs...

The Patriot wears that mask EVERYWHERE! Even in the shower!

I believe that we will move forward a little tomorrow but I have my doubts that we will achieve a result.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

You probably think I’m at a disadvantage. I promise you, I’m not.

Playing in this nice weather really makes me remember all the times I got stung by a bee.

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.