My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have recognized that they have trans people in their world. Caitlyn Jenner really is thinking about the movement and saving lives, so I know that her intentions are honorable.

There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.