Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

It's bliss when you give up all that stuff that separates you from other human beings. It's hard, but you break down all that stuff.

I don't do the things other people call "play."

He wants to put his story next to hers.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.