I believe it's in the best interests of a child to be in a stable environment.

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

I don't write about my life in my column.

the truth is often a mixed message

She found herselfover a long and treacherous roadand the more treacherous the road became, the more of herselfshe found.

I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.

We would go out and play these songs and people could interpret them however the hell they wanted.

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

We think a lot of things but can not take the right steps at the right time. And this is why the next time we're gonna regret.

I’m looking for youinto that silverspoon where I taste my reflection to feel the touch of your untouchables- from the poem "Looking For You

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)