There's a quote that I learned in college a million years ago. "Happy, thought I, is the man who can, in one and the same embrace, hold both his love and the object of his love." Holding the feeling that you have and all the images that you've got and all the fantasies and romantic associations while also holding the actual core person that's been saddled with all of this.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.

When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better.