Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.

Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.

Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person’s biological makeup and their eventual role in society.

It’s gotten far easier to allow ourselves to hate than it is to choose to love.

Never ask for permission to smile.

Everyone doesn’t need to have the same beliefs, we just need to start believing in everyone.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone's love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.

It's not a crime to get drunk.

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.

We [The Replacements] formed as a rock and roll band, and that was the path we chose to take. Whenever we deviated from it we felt, unless everybody was into it, there was tension.

I don't really have that much control over where I play. I put out parameters and I accept what I can. If it's really low, or I had a bad experience at a place then I usually don't play there again.