If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.
Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.
I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.
Writing is hustling of another kind.
Gay men should not adopt the sophomoric model of heterosexual dating; gay men should always have sex first.
Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.
I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?" "No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives. . . on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.
Life is a child moving counters in a game.
Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.