All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.