Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, “It's not like I hate gay people.”

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

It's not like I hate gay people.

I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.