Hijras are a sexual minority that is visible, and yet we are treated as the invisibles. I believe I was never invisible. I thought, "I'm the face in the crowd, not the crowd."

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

Freedom, if it emerges like magic from consciousness (like the conjuring of consciousness itself!) seems best recognized in the choices made for love.

Friendship is the grease of life.

Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

Somebody was using the pencil.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.

We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.