Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.

Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.

We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.

You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition."

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.