Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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.

I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.