Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You're serving people and submitting to God as best you can.

Because trans people are marked as artificial, unnatural, and illegitimate, our bodies and identities are often open to public dissection. Plainly, cisgender folks often take it as their duty to investigate our lives to see if we're real.

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.