Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.
I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.
I think we need a politics that allows us to risk what is intelligible. To be maybe slightly unintelligible, too be slightly "illisible". To take the risk of suggesting that the human form might take another form.
So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.
Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.
You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.
You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.