I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

Knowing the future is different from being told what I like.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years.

History passes the final judgment

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.