I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.

But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

Different types of sex work are differently supportive. If I were working in a strip club, I would be competing with my colleagues, and while there would be support, there would be financial motivation not to offer too much support.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.