The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
That what is agreed to be done, must be considered as done.
The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
We never considered ourselves part of the goth thing.
Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.
I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.
I never considered myself a good photographer. I still don't. I thought of myself as a hard worker. My camera was a sponge and I had an instinct that athletes have - anticipation. Photography really represents an enormous amount of anticipation - understanding what might be there the next moment and being prepared for it.
Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.
Given masculine norms, it is clear that women are more likely to be considered crazy - I'm not saying to be crazy.