There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.

In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something that's just a tad more normal.

I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.

Lee explained to her that art for art’s sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can’t be living a life driven by need and desire.

So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed.

I see travelling as a great learning process, and my biggest dream is to travel the world.

People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.

Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you