‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ There is a great answer to that one going around: ‘We don’t know; it hasn’t told us yet’.

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented choices as mutually exclusive alternatives.

There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?

It's easy to fictionalize an issue when you're not aware of the many ways in which you are privileged by it.

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

When you're a Scientologist it's like the movie Goodfellas, where the gangsters hang out with only other gangsters. We only hung out with each other, so we knew we were saving the world.

I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it.

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

Look, I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.

The media is almost entirely about defining the subject, defining the citizen, as one of three things: a consumer, a threat in this new age of surveillance, or as utterly disposable. Excess.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.

I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it was obviously that I would write them, too.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.