You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing.

The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas.

yEvery man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility

Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

I want to try everything.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

We all do make foolish mistakes.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?