My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

I have seen a lifetime of transgender people and it was hard enough being gay in the '50s and early '60s. One couldn't imagine the cruelty that trans people had to face back then.

I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.