piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

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.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"