I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

To help people is to help God

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.