We are in an interesting place in the evolution in our community in the people want to be indistinguishable from heterosexuals. I love the individuality I see in our community.

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!

I am really fascinated by self-sabotage. I think that there's not a person I know who doesn't fall victim to it. It's essential to the human condition, and relatable.

Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and learning.

Unless you have a huge ego, I think it requires a tremendous amount of bravery to keep putting yourself out there, knowing that you will get rejected most of the time.

Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting.

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic.

I think it's really important to depict complex, flawed LGBT characters, because we are all connected by our humanity.

You can never know anything for sure.

I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.

You live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life.

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.