But he knew how to kiss a woman until she needed his kisses more than she needed to breathe. Until her bones melted. Until she gave him exactly what he wanted.

Heaven’s Bakery help them all.

If my mom sees you here, she’ll ---“ “Paper the walls with my innards while the innocents watch?

Always be looking for what you can appreciate in the moment.

When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.

Our visions begin with our desires.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

When you stop caring about something, then other people have to decide whether or not they genuinely care about you, or not.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.

In life there is not time to grieve long.

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.