You write in order to change the world.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

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.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.