Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.

The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love. That's not us. There's eros, which is sexual love. There's philia, which is brotherly love. And then there's the highest form. Agape.” He pronounced it “aga-pay.” “That's transcendental love, like when you place the other person above yourself.

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.