I said to Ramona [my daughter] once. . . you should never look yourself up on the Internet. It's something I've learned.
On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?
Being gay is nothing but another way to live your life.
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.