It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

I don't know how anyone gets anything done in New York City. I vastly prefer living in the country. I just need a lot of quiet and solitude, and I'm so easily distracted. I mean, the Internet is enough to deal with.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy