I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.
I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.
It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!
Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.
Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
What do they do in these [private] clubs, anyway? Sit around saying things like 'Thank God I'm here. No Jews! What fun! This is living, huh? Look! No Jews! I don't know when I've had a better time. And no women! Just men! And no blacks! Just whites! White men! White men who are not Jewish! It doesn't get any better than this. ' To some people, apparently, this is a perfect description of injustice. To me, this is a perfect description of a gay bar in Iceland.
I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time.