I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.