I may not know what my heart truly holds, but who does? I think we're all mysteries, even to ourselves.

I knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined.

I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender?

Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.

You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to mold you into their image.

If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

I'm like a junkie for writing.

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

And hold up to the sun my little taper.

I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.

I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth.

The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.

If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn't forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.