You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ... Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch.

We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.

Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.

There are moments when I think, Everyone is evil!

In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.