I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.

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.