There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.
You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.
The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.
I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
You know, these conservative women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut 'em off, let 'em go through the hot flashes, let 'em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don't deserve to have estrogen. They really don't. It's a privilege.
Becoming is superior to being.
Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.