Be positive and work hard. I think it's possible to overcome anything, if you're willing to work at it.
Divorce is just about change, you know. It's God saying, You need a change. And I'm going to make it so your bank account only has change.
The only thing that ever made me want to be a wife-beater is being called one. Your honor, can I have five minutes to make her not a liar, please?
My first car was a 1977 Oldsmobile Delta 88. Ugly car. More ugly on this car than a Rolling Stones group photo.
The closer you get to death, the more alive you feel. Dylan Thomas wrote, Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. My dad always taught me to live like that. Dad wrote a poem too. It goes, Dune buggies. Woohoo!
Anyone can have a relationship but if you're dating a woman who's so crazy in bed that if you aren't wearing your Kevlar one night you might never see daylight again. . . that's exciting.
Whenever you're pissed off, just remember that it's better than being pissed on.
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.
I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.
The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.