Born on December 17th

"I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago."

"I want to make a name for myself."

"Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know."

"I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me."

"Basically, I didn't know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21."

"I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that."

"The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high."

"I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people."

"I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country."

"All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves."

"It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget."

"We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on."

"Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo."

"At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself."

"For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone before, but most importantly, to people that they might be afraid of."

"If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you."

"I write novels and other things."

"I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday."

"No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them."

"First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money."

"I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects."

"I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes."

"I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office."

"I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things."

"Decadence is wonderful."

"In the field of love & connection, love is the alignment of two souls speaking a language that words can never fully translate."

"To love is to see the quiet beauty hidden within another's struggles and stand by them. As a statesperson & leader, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"The greatest force of creation is the warmth we share in the quiet spaces of our connection."

"Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon."

"Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful."