I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don’t bother to sell it to another human being. It’s bad business to even consider such a thing.

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.

Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them.

You, know, the only thing I can be is a writer. I'm absolutely unprepared for anything else. When you've lived the kind of life I have, you are good for nothing. Only writing can save you.

Lasher, ’ she said, ‘for the wind which you send that lashes the grasslands, for the wind that lashes the leaves from the trees.

How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.

Voila, pleasurable indeed. Oh yeah, satisfy my need. Alright, how I long to be. My soul on fire and my spirit free.