Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.

I’m never not going to be interested in young girls who are struggling in poor places.

Sophie knew about power animals,everyone did…Sophie thought she might be a cat, she liked cats a lot.

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never...

Andrea worked to harden herself to the onslaught of feelings. The problem with feelings was, first you had one, which was generally bad enough. But then you had a feeling about your feeling, and then...

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down...

and give me insults, give meeconomic discrimination, give methe darkened parking lot of a windowless queer bar, give me fleets of bigots and books bannedin libraries across america, feed the worldwith lies about my life...

She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her,...

i was really into communal living and we were all /such free spirits, crossing the country we were /nomads and artists and no one ever stopped / to think about how the one working class...

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus.

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

Of course it is very limiting to be labeled a lesbian or queer writer. We live in a homophobic culture, and even people who aren’t hateful per se assume they won’t get anything from a...

There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

I think it’s my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right?