1. “We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.”
2. “Writing about you community is difficult for any writer.”
3. “The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.”
4. “I don’t think anyone’s normal.”
5. “We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.”
6. “Once your writing is out there, you can’t control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.”
7. “Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.”
8. “I don’t see the point of pretending we’re clones.”
9. “Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.”
10. “The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.”