Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

I don't write about my life in my column.

the truth is often a mixed message

Twilight was laying claim to the cité, and the sky was a deepening shade of lavender, spangled with stars and fleecy clouds the colour of plums.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

I am anxious to see what life is going to bring next.

I do believe that everything can look beautiful if you look at it from outside. The closer you zoom in, most of us exhibit behaviour that is strange to someone from outside.

...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.