Sometimes when we think we’re protecting ourselves, we’re really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.

Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent.

One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.

AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.

Losing my virginity was very boring.

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

Jocelyn did not want to always remain the same. Where was the adventure in that?

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, 'It might have been, 'More sad are these we daily see:'It is, but hadn't ought to be.

Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks...

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.

I'll transform anything as long as it's edible.

My definition of innovative is providing value to the customer.

I am the one, Not Running, Not Staying, But FACING