But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large.

The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't.

And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.