The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off.

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!)

At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.