Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality.

I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place