Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.