Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you're right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you've never known. I learn this over and over again.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive