I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.
Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
The first one of the girls I ever told was Kimberly.
Bruce lives a lie. She is not a lie. I can't do it anymore.
I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.
It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life. '
It's not right to say that my father influenced me more than others, and I wouldn't be able to say whether my personality was formed more by my father or my mother or the Mahatma [Gandhi] or the friends who were with us.
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.
No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.
We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.