The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.

When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.