Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

Goals are ever-changing. I didn't set out to be in a 'Star Wars' film but now I've been in one.

I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.

Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.

Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.

High school is already an academic and social pressure cooker, and the forces that make it stressful are amplified for queer students.

My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.