Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.

When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.