Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.

I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.

Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.

Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

More and more these days, I'm realizing that I might be crazy, but I'm loved too. I don't think I ever really knew that before, but I do now.

What do you call it when a straight person comes out? ... A conversation

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Poirot: Do not allow Hate into your heart, for it will make a home there. Jackie: If Love cannot live there, Hate works just as well.

I have always liked a challenge.

Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.