One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

I don't write about my life in my column.

the truth is often a mixed message

He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.

Make everyday a positive dayMake it joyful and beautiful in everyway

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

You can't get better at things you never play.

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.