It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.

on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.

Peculiar isn't it

What we find changes who we become.

You have to be strong. You have to know how you are, and you have to know who your partner is and you have to know who your friends, who your real friends are.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

Religion is pointing toward the moon

Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldnt be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a sketch be as fun if it were me standing there saying it.

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

Yeah I did put my clothes on, but my clothes took off... Could it be my clothes are putting me on??