I think, life is miserable.

Sexuality is a place where people are very vulnerable and can be experiencing and embodying very raw forces that they don't really understand and there's a question of how much you should control and how much you should play with those and what those forces really are, how you really feel about them. That's perennial.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

Somebody once said to me if you want to be understood, don't write fiction.

Point of view changes so much as time goes on. And it's important to acknowledge that the truth is multifaceted. And yet that conversation has a very different meaning now because of this whole alternative facts thing, calling everything you don't like "fake news."

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.