Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.
We’re happier when the assholes are villains.
Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.
Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.
Penicillin was as liberating for gay sex as the pill had been for straight sex.