Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

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

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.