And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

My heart is beating like it's lonely, like there's nothing else inside of me.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can. A smarty-pants, the kind you don't find every day.

Deep down, where my boys don't know me, I'm an optimist.

She'd never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she'd had one handy.

Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

You are significantly more likely to die in a car accident, especially if you fail to wear a seat belt, than to be attacked by ISIS. Wear your seat belt

We don't choose our talents

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.