It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.

Listen how they say your name. If they can't say that right, there's no way they're going to know how to treat you proper, neither.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.