The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.
Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.
I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.