She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

I don't want to pretend to tell that I always feel the presence of God because I don't. My consciousness is very often closed to that feeling - most of the time.

I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.

My intention was never to write a "trans novel" - which is perhaps an effective strategy for writing a trans novel.